Loneliness and its impact on Mental Health
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We have all known for a very long time that loneliness is not nice. Connection to other human beings brings all sorts of good stuff and feeling apart from them…
Mental Health
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…
What Is ‘Attachment’? And What’s It Got To Do With Your Love Life?
Do you have trouble getting or staying in romantic relationships? Do you have a desperate need to be appreciated by the people you are close to? Do you have a…
What Is Complex Trauma?
Trauma is most often associated with a traumatising event or experience, such as wars or accidents or violence, that causes extreme distress – and the effects of that experience can…
How to Calm an Anxiety Attack and Regain Control
If you suffer from an anxiety disorder, then you will know that life can feel scary at times – even overwhelming. Worries about what might happen can sometimes spiral out…
Are You Passive-Aggressive?
It is hard to argue the case for being aggressive; lashing out is clearly not a good thing. But, the one good thing you can say about aggression is that…
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…
Is Phone Addiction a Real Thing?
Most people have a love-hate relationship with their smart phone. We recognise that we can’t quite live without them now, but we also resent them for the amount of attention…
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…
How To Build Your Self-Esteem
The desire to build stronger self-esteem is one of the underlying issues that brings people into therapy. If your self-esteem is low, you can end up being hard on yourself,…