Counselling with AI
A Paradigm Shift Many counsellors are reporting that their numbers are well down on where they were two years ago. In those post-Covid days, we were turning people away and…
Our Window of Tolerance
What is it? Our Window of Tolerance is a state of mind where we are successfully regulating our emotions. To much regulation, and we feel detached or we may even…
Anxiety – What is is and what should I do?
What is Anxiety? There are many ways of answering this question, so let me add mine to the already long list. Anxiety is our natural flight-flight response to a perceived…
Contemplating counselling or psychotherapy sessions?
Why therapy? People come along to therapy for many reasons – and I use the term to cover both counselling (generally understood to be focussed on various issues) and psychotherapy…
I can’t sleep
There are a number of common issues that counsellors hear from clients, and one is that they can’t sleep. Sometimes the reason for that won’t be anything psychological. There might…
ADHD – do I have it and does it matter?
What is ADHD? From time to time, a mental health condition seems to come to the forfront of our attention, and in recent years it's Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disprder -…
Procrastination
We recognise it Many of us are familiar with the urge to procrastinate, even when we know it's unwise to do so. Why do we do this? First, let's think…
Why are boundaries important?
The subject of boundaries frequently arises in counselling. Sometimes it's a person't own experiences of being at the receiving end of another person's lack of boundaries. What we would generally…
Memories that leave us anxious and the easing of lockdown
Like many people, I used lockdown as an opportunity to learn something. In my case, two things. Namely jazz music theory and philosophy/psychology from a yoga perspective. Although the former…
Five things I have learned from offering online counselling
Not better, not worse, just different This is what I said at the start of the lockdown in a communication to existing clients and new enquiries. While counselling for many…