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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Being In Therapy: How Speaking To A Therapist Is Different From Chatting To A Friend
“It’s good to talk,” so the old saying goes – and this year’s National Conversation Week (19th – 25th March) is encouraging us all to put our smartphones down, take…
What To Do If You Have The Baby Blues Or Postnatal Depression
Mothering Sunday is a day to celebrate mums. But what if you are a new mum and celebrating is the last thing you feel like doing? Around half of all…
Being In Therapy: How Do You Know if You Need Short-Term Or Open-Ended Therapy?
So, you’ve made the decision to come into therapy. You may have a problem that keeps tripping you up, a dilemma you need to come to a decision about, or…
Being In Therapy: The Power Of Telling Your Story
Everyone loves a story. Stories are a powerful way to make sense of our world. Stories are much more fun and engaging than recounting facts – as well as being…