In this post we’re going to look at some issues related to being a woman in mid-life. A lot of women feel that they become gradually more invisible despite their being fundamental in our everyday lives. We’ll talk about the perimenopause, the menopause, empty nest… Read More »Being a woman in mid-life and how to get through it
In this blog post we’re going to talk about eating difficulties (also known as disorders), what they are, how they occur and how we can heal them. An eating difficulty is a mental health concern that is characterised by marked distress expressed in relation to… Read More »Eating difficulties, what they are, how they come about and how we heal them
In this blog post we’re going to talk about people who self-harm. It is becoming an epidemic and we need to understand how to support people who do it. We will look at what self-harm is, identify types of self-harm and the reasons for it,… Read More »Self-harm, why we do it and what we can do to heal it
In today’s blog post we’ll be talking about neurodivergence, which refers to variations in the human brain regarding sociability, learning, attention, mood, and other mental functions. It covers a range of conditions such as Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), characterised by differences in social interaction, communication,… Read More »Neurodivergence in therapy
In this blog entry we’ll be talking about how millennials and GenZ feel about their place in the world and what we can do to help them. We all experience similar themes according to the generation or time in which we were born and the… Read More »Millennials and GenZ and their concerns for the present and future
Depression is when someone feels down for an extended period of time, not just a few days, but for a few weeks or months, and feels this way for most of the day, most days. They may feel hopeless, unhappy, tearful or lose interest in… Read More »Depression, how it comes about and what we can do about it
The Drama Triangle The Drama Triangle explains how sometimes we can subconsciously take on roles that may not always be helpful to ourselves and to others. The psychiatrist, Stephen Karpman, talked about how a person’s life script (the subconscious development of our life positions and… Read More »Looking at our relationships with others
In therapy we often use metaphors to help you to realise something about yourself, your situation or your environment. It’s better that they come from you so that they have more meaning for you; learning by doing is more effective because we experience it for… Read More »Why and how do we use metaphors in sessions?
What is the process of humanistic integrative therapy like? In the first therapy session, often clients aren’t very sure of what they are going to encounter in their therapy process. They want to know how their journey in therapy will evolve. This is normal if… Read More »The therapy journey
