Latest articles on counselling and therapy

Having a loved one in prison can often feel the same as being bereaved with feelings of loss and grieving for the relationship, especially when a medium or long term sentence has...

The current discussion on the gradual easing of the lockdown highlights a key feature of counselling strategies such as CBT and solution-focused therapy. This type of counselling...

Counselling psychologist, Dr Daniela Hecht, answers your questions on feeling isolated.

As I have written in previous articles, lockdown was like a bolt out of the blue. One day things seemed OK - the next - shutdown. It was a blow to the system by anyone's...

I sit at my desk on a sunny day with lots of tasks to do, and yet I yearn to be outside. I know this intense, intuitive sense of what is best for me and it is to be in nature and...

Since the lockdown began I've seen posts every single day about how we're eating too much.Mostly people are saying this with humour; people are still trying to makejokes out of...

As I write this, I am very aware of the plethora of coronavirus-related mental health advice out there at the moment. On the one hand, we are in isolation and being told that it...

We all do it all the time. We show ourselves by our actions, speech, and body language. By the colours that we wear. We are our history. We also project our pain on to others,...

EMDR or eye movement desensitisation reprocessing is a therapeutic approach which was founded and developed by Francine Shapiro, an American Psychologist, researcher and teacher....

Andy Salkeld tells his story, how a text from a friend saved his life, and why we should all be more open in how we're feeling.