We keep seeing in the media reports on the benefits of nature and being outdoors for us, for our physical and mental wellbeing. People often tell you to go for a walk if you have a problem or that they feel better when they are… Read More »The benefits of nature for our wellbeing
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
In this blog entry we’ll be talking about anger, why it’s a secondary emotion, why it’s a useful emotion, and ways of dealing with anger. Sue Parker Hall wrote the book ‘Anger, Rage and Relationship an Emphatic Approach to Anger Management’ (2009), which has a… Read More »Anger, why it happens and how to manage it
In this blog post the focus is on grief and loss and how to deal with them. Grief is a deep or intense sorrow or distress, especially at the death of someone or something that causes suffering. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross was a Swiss-American psychiatrist and a… Read More »Grief and loss and how to deal with them
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
This blogpost about anxiety includes a summary of a training by Michelle Vickers, a UK-based psychotherapist and coach, given on the Counselling CPD website. Her experience rings true with mine as a counsellor and how she accompanies people with their struggles with anxiety. Anxiety is… Read More »Anxiety, what it is and what to do about it