Can Therapy Help You To Overcome A Difficult Early Life?
The short answer is: yes. Therapy can help you to bring to light, recognise and work on the dysfunction and damage caused by early trauma or difficulty. The slightly longer…
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How Counselling Can Help You Manage Your Depression
Depression is a key issue for people deciding to see a therapist. Depressive symptoms can include feeling low and hopeless, having little energy, feeling a failure, and loss of interest…
Can a Relationship Ever Survive an Affair?
When an affair is discovered, it can be devastating for a relationship. Whether it’s revealed through lipstick on the collar, a suspicious amount of extra time at the gym, or…
How Counselling Can Help You Manage Your Anger
What’s your relationship with your anger? Is it allowed free expression as part of being a healthy human being with emotions? Is it suppressed and not allowed out? Or is…
Four Ways To Improve How You Communicate With Your Partner
Breakdown of communication is often a key factor for couples seeking a counsellor to help repair their relationship. When you’re at the beginning of a relationship, in that rosy honeymoon…
Do You Have Too Much Stress At Work?
Stress is a tricky one, because it is there for a reason; a good reason. Without any stress at all we’d be jelly, the benefit of stress is that it’s…
Why There Is No “Getting Over” A Bereavement
“Do you not know that a man is not dead if his name is still spoken.” Terry Pratchett Bereavement is such a personal, raw, individual thing. The loss of a loved…
What To Do If You Are Struggling Post-Abortion
Many people do not experience any after-effects after they have had a termination. In fact, the majority of women have positive responses to abortion, and experience a sense of relief…
Are You Co-Dependent?
Co-dependency is a condition, like OCD, that is widely misunderstood. The word ‘co-dependent’ is in common usage but is misused more often than not. Much as people might comment if…
How Being In Therapy Can Help You Find Your Voice
The reasons why people come into therapy are vast and various. You may have a nagging sense that something isn’t quite right in your life, and you’d like the space…