Latest articles on counselling and therapy

Co-founders of War On Cancer, Fabian Bolin and Sebastian Hermelin, share their advice for supporting a friend post-diagnosis.

If you’ve recently been diagnosed or are going through cancer treatment, counselling can offer you additional emotional support.

According to Macmillan Cancer Support, men are too embarrassed to discuss cancer symptoms as they do not want to ‘make a fuss’.

What’s in a name? The Greek physician Hippocrates (460-370 BC) named the disease ‘carcinoma’, after the Greek word for crab. The name was changed to...

We all get those times in life when negative situations occur and we do our best to cope and deal with issues. We may change our attitude, our mind and try to adjust accordingly....

Even if you have never been affected by cancer, you may also question the value of talking about the experience. Talking does not help save lives, or does it? It's not like...

According to a new survey, a shocking number of people in the UK would not be able to recognise signs of melanoma.

Should or shouldn’t you tell others when you have been diagnosed with a serious illness like cancer, dementia, Parkinson’s? Is saying nothing wise or cowardly? Is...

Statistics can be terrifying. The news from Cancer Research UK that the proportion of those expected to develop cancer at some point in their lives has ‘risen’ from...

For anyone who was willing to listen, Lynda Bellingham has given a lot to think about over the past few weeks, since she decided to stop chemotherapy for colon cancer and prepare...