Therapy Articles

Christmas is just around the corner, as the shops and media are keen to keep reminding us. But for many people, Christmas is not a Christmas-card perfect time of festive cheer, family and food. There are lots of reasons why the Christmas period can be exceptionally difficult; financial worries, family dynamics, the absence of loved ones or simply the pressure to ‘have a good time’. It can also feel extremely lonely to think that you are the only one feeling like this. Navigat

One of the most common concerns I hear when working with clients, is that they don’t want to come to therapy and feel like they are simply blaming their parents for the mistakes they made. In fact, clients often experience a great reluctance to talk about parents and other family at all, with many citing a feeling of disloyalty around doing so. Looking Back Through the Lens of Adulthood The clients I work with are all adults, many of whom can now look back on their childhoods

September Signals Change When the 1st of September hits, it somehow feels like the end of something. As soon as that date comes around, the shops are already filled with their autumn clothes, the Halloween (and even Christmas!) decorations are on the shelves and we are being encouraged to look towards the end of the year. Those light-filled summer months have drawn to a close, it starts to get darker earlier, and it really feels like the bulk of the year is behind us. Some pe

Self-care is the buzzword that we hear all the time nowadays; it’s on social media, it’s on the news, it’s even in our workplaces. But...