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Feeling bad is often what brings many adults or young people into the counselling room. Shame is often connected with a feeling of a deeper, constant, sense of badness - many...

Do you ever experience times in your adult life where things don't seem to make sense, like an emotion that comes out of nowhere or an overwhelming feeling which seems to be stuck...

I think one of the greatest betrayals that ever shaped the fabric of mankind must be the concept and application of parental abuse. The perversion of the innocent by a superior...

What is trauma?  I wanted to talk a little about trauma and what can happen, as well as the fascination of how the body and mind work to keep us safe, and also providing our...

Abuse in childhood brings many adults to counselling support and quite rightly, but often not until many difficult years of trauma through denial and lacking understanding of the...

Coronavirus, emergency and trauma This current situation, ongoing for as long as it will take, has come with a much-overlooked side effect. This, unfortunately, unless looked at...

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety-based disorder that is caused by very stressful, frightening or distressing events. It can include symptoms such as nightmares,...

In order to help with the symptoms of trauma, we need to think of the trauma response as being an accelerator. I often remind my clients that trauma is something our body does....

I’m not sure about you but this has been an incredible experience for me; living with the threat of the coronavirus. It has certainly been an uncertain period in my life and...

When we are trying to change a behaviour or a response, it can be a frustrating and baffling process. Why, if we try so hard, are we still doing the thing that we don’t want...