Latest articles on counselling and therapy

When you come for cognitive behaviour therapy, the anxiety and depression that you come forward to work on is addressed by looking at two main aspects - cognitions first, then the behaviours. What are cognitions? The definition of cognition is "the...

When you are confused, distressed, and driven to distraction, it's easy to imagine there's no way out. And although there's no such thing as crazy, it is often an immediate way of characterising how you feel. Anxiety and depression can be...

Have you ever felt unloved as a result of attracting the wrong people? This could be in intimate relationships or friendships. When a person has had a dysfunctional upbringing, seen or felt a lot of emotional pain, they may develop a learnt...

We all make promises to ourselves that we are going to get better and do things differently, and then, as often as not, we find ourselves 'self-sabotaging' and back at square one. "I’ll go to the gym more", "I’ll eat a better diet",...

Anxiety sometimes rips you apart. This is not the type of pain that is curable with a pill, and this is not a form of anguish that can be relieved by a simple 'there-there', or by adopting a 'stiff upper lip' attitude. Neither does it help when you...

Psychodynamic therapy is a therapeutic technique that is used to help clients work through entrenched issues such as depression. Often, this particular form of therapy gets associated, and sometimes confused with, psychoanalytical therapy....

Continuing the theme of exploring and demystifying different therapeutic approaches, today we will be looking at dialectical behaviour therapy - otherwise known as DBT. The history of DBT In a previous article, we looked at cognitive...

Seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, affects millions of people and is four times more likely to affect women than men. Presenting symptoms, either severe or mild, include; low mood changes in appetite sleep disturbances a lack of motivation to...

In everyday language, the term addiction is usually applied to the 'need' to repeatedly take a drink or drug due to the physical or mental withdrawal we experience without it. However, for many sufferers, this dependency is only the surface layer; a...