Online therapy, e-Therapy or ‘Skypeotherapy’ as it is also known reaches people who wouldn’t normally consider accessing counselling. It’s also the therapy of choice for many young people who feel safer being a step removed from a ‘real’ therapist as… Read More »Skype Counselling.
Having a baby is the most unique and amazing experience any one can ever have. Life changes immensely, in a wonderful and very special way. But what if you can’t always feel the excitement, the pleasure and the wonder of… Read More »Postnatal depression
It’s Monday morning and I wake up feeling exhausted. My mind has been racing all night with a rumination of anxious and negative thoughts. I have a heavy feeling in my heart and a deep-seated sense of dread for what… Read More »Gratitude.
We’ve all watched the horrors of the Tunisian holiday-makers unfold on our TV screens in recent weeks and try to make sense of images of a gunman picking out Western tourists and killing them. Interviews with witnesses reveal similar themes… Read More »The impact of trauma and role of counselling
There seems to be something inside all of us that fears the end of a chapter in our lives. There are times that we are in control of how this chapter will end, especially when we might be thinking of… Read More »Dealing with endings.
Self-care simply means taking care of yourself. Or as we often phrase it at your counselling service ‘being kind to yourself’. Life can get very busy and a lot of the time it is hard to find the time to… Read More »Self-care.
Looking at young people today I am left wondering how many of them are actually young and free? What does it feel like to be young and free? Or is the question perhaps what does it feel like to be… Read More »Being young.
Here at your counselling service we also offer group therapy. One of the groups we run is an eating disorder group for young women. The group is open to any young woman (above the age of 16) that is currently living with ANY… Read More »Eating Disorder group therapy
Relationships are complicated and often people don’t realise the amount of effort and nurturing that needs to go into them. There are often issues within all types of relationships. It doesn’t just mean with your partner. It can mean with… Read More »Improving relationships.
What do you do when you wake up one morning, look at the love of your life and feel like you are kissing a frog? That you prince charming or your Cinderella has turned into a frog. That feeling you… Read More »Kissing a frog….