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…
Mental Health
What Your Manager Needs To Know About Workplace Stress
Stress in the workplace is fast becoming the norm rather than the exception. Ask anyone with a full-time day job how they are, and the likely response is “busy”, “stressed”,…
Do You Know A Psychopath?
If your partner or boss is behaving in a disdainful, deceitful, cruel or megalomaniac manner towards you it is only natural to wonder if they are a psychopath. There have…
Five Self-Care Tips To Support Your Mental Health
Self-care is defined as “the practice of taking an active role in protecting one’s own wellbeing and happiness, in particular during periods of stress”. The only problem is that when…
Are You Highly Sensitive?
Do you sometimes think that life is more difficult for you than others and that you “feel too much” or “take things too hard”? If so, you could be a…
Are You A Stress Addict? Here’s How To Tell…
Being manically busy, never having time for yourself, always on email or social media, working round the clock. These behaviours are so typical of the response we have to the…
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…
How To Cope When Trauma Gets Triggered
Just recently, there were three whole days when you could not watch or listen to a news bulletin without hearing a woman, Dr Christine Blasey Ford, recounting her experience of…
How To Spot Someone With Social Anxiety Disorder
You may have heard of social anxiety disorder, also known as social phobia, and perhaps think that someone who has the condition might feel rather shy at parties or other…
How To Spot Someone With Acute Stress Disorder
Are you concerned that someone close to you isn’t coping well with a recent traumatic event they’ve experienced? We don’t just mean they’ve been under pressure at work and they’re…