Around my house there are a few cupboards that are fit to burst.  I do not often get round to sorting them out and more and more “stuff” gets shoved

How often do you allow yourself a moment’s pause?  By that I mean a time that you really just stop, shut out the noise, put down your phone and breathe. 

There is a lot of talk right now about returning to normal. After over a year of living in some sort of suspended animation, our world around us is beginning

Where to start? In recent months, counselling for clients and the therapists changed almost overnight. Until March this year, I was a self-confessed technophobe, who had very little experience in

The new year is for many a time of change.  All around us people are trying to reinvent themselves.  Dry January, diet plans, renewed gym memberships and people making all

Here we are again in December. For many of us that means Christmas. Whilst there are no decorations in my office, (there are some mince pies in my drawer), Christmas

Self harm is something that many people feel uncomfortable talking about. It’s not Fight Club… we can talk about it. Talking about it may be the first step in finding

“I have anxiety”. This is something I hear frequently from clients. Many people would describe themselves as an “anxious person”. This does not however need to be a label which

“Don’t compare where you are with the heavily filtered snapshots of a single moment in time that you see on social media. They’re never the full picture”. This was a

I have been thinking a lot about crying and tears. I hope to do some in depth research so will probably blog a lot more about this subject over the

Do you consider your mind and body as separate things? If you had asked me this a couple of years ago I would probably have said “yes”. Having spent a

Your relationship with your therapist is likely to be different to your relationship with anyone else. For a start, there are boundaries. This might feel strange at first but they