Counselling & Therapy

CAN: Breaking Free of the Cycle of Depression and Anxiety If you’ve ever been caught up in a cycle of depression and anxiety, you’ll know how relentless it can be. If you’re feeling very low and unmotivated, you’re also likely to feel terrified of returning to the world of relationships and responsibility. Conversely, if you

It’s widely known that people suffering from mental health issues in the UK struggle to find long-term professional support. It’s easy to blame the NHS, but public mental health services aren’t funded enough to provide instant and long term counselling of a high quality. I, like many young women, could have done with some affordable

It’s widely known that women have had to fight and wait, then wait and fight, for every basic human right in history. If we were, surprise surprise, a little bit down from all that inequality, we would have been labelled as hysterics back in the day. Things have gotten a little better in the mental

It’s now a widely accepted that some persistent medical conditions that appear to have no apparent physical cause can be associated with psychological causes. This process is known as “somatisation”. In her book “Your body speaks your mind” Deb Shapiro gives an example of a simple way to demonstrate the effect thinking has on the

The cross governmental definition of domestic abuse is “”Any incident or pattern of behaviour of incidents of controlling, coercive, threatening behaviour, violence or abuse between those aged 16 and over who are, or have been intimate partners or family members regardless of gender or sexuality. The abuse can encompass but is not limited to: psychological,

“Feeling low, no desire to get up and go to work, college or school?  So nervous in fact of meeting that daily event, I snuggle under the covers and sleep.  Yes, sleep will help me escape all those things I am worried about; I had goals and objectives which were so much part of my

Relationship counselling offers homosexual and heterosexual couples the opportunity to explore the patterns they bring to their relationship, based on the values, attitudes and beliefs from their own background and upbringing in order to identify issues and what they would like to do differently. Using a genogram, a family tree, the couple gain an understanding

Stress is an unavoidable part of modern life. We are all affected by everyday stressors such as traffic jams, pressure at work, financial difficulties and issues arising within our relationships. We all feel overwhelmed at times, and our bodies can be under stress even when we are not aware of it. The Concise Oxford Dictionary

Relaxation – how can it help me in a moment of dilemma? I imagine my life as a container, a glass jar perhaps that sometimes gets cracked with fear or unpleasantness, or at times the lid can come off completely.  How do I get this jar repaired? I look to relaxation, taking a considered judgement

“Mindfulness” has become quite a buzzword in the West in recent years, but in fact it is an ancient Buddhist concept in origin, based on the Zen Buddhist idea of bringing the mind’s attention as fully as possible to everything we do. The alternative is that we do things on “automatic pilot” while thinking about