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Today I woke up bleary-eyed after a fitful night’s sleep. My dreams had been menacing, menopause night sweats did not help and my heart had been all out of kilter (more than...

2020 has seen an increase in anxiety, stress, depression and other mental health challenges for many people. We are having to manage feelings of uncertainty and navigate new...

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....