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…
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…
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…
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 -…
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…
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…
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…
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…
I have now stopped face to face counselling and supervision sessions. This wasn’t the choice I wanted to make, but with 23 Eyre Place now cancelling appointments, and my not…
Below is my position in response to the Coronavirus situation. I will continue to offer counselling and supervision sessions at both my practices (23 Eyre Place and 61a Mayfield Road).…
Sometimes a single piece of news can significantly change our mood Recently, having felt confident for some time, one of my clients unexpectedly cancelled our next and all subsequent sessions.…