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
Here are some of the theories and ideas behind the effect of movement and the body in therapy, from yoga and kickboxing, to dancing and a walk in the park. There are theories about the mind-body relationship that support Outdoor Therapy (OT). Bessel van der… Read More »The mind-body connection in therapy
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
