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As a psychotherapist and trauma therapist, a big theme in my work is somatic wisdom. The body remembers, we are all mammals, and to...

“Listen to the wind, it talks. Listen to the silence, it speaks. Listen to your heart, it knows.” Native American Proverb, quoted by...

I’ve recently been reading Daniel Brown and David Elliott’s work about attachment difficulties, which focuses on how to help adults who...

It's more years since I care to remember since I first came across the idea of Character Strengths, back then I was working in the...

I could get all sciency and talk about 20 seconds of physical contact causing the participants to release oxytocin (the love hormone),...

Here we are, another festive season over, and the winter ahead of us. The Christmas lights are coming down. For many people the coming...

“Trauma represents a profound compression of “survival” energy, energy that has not been able to complete its meaningful course of...

Today I wanted to reflect on the concept of ecology, which is used in neuro-linguistic programming to check out the congruence of a...

If you have the mid-winter blues this article I helped #UKCP with may be of interest. https://www.psychotherapy.org.uk/news/how-to-cope-w...

As you prepare for 2022, it’s a good time to reflect on both the year past and the year to come. Here’s an article I wrote for #UKCP...

Sometimes it is easy to lose trust in what you are experiencing. It may be that someone else somehow undermines you, convincing you that...

I’ve had the pleasure of making some new connections personally and professionally in recent weeks, which has felt good after the...

When we think of being in danger, the fight/flight response is perhaps the response that most readily comes to mind. Our sympathetic...

Often, what brings clients into therapy is a reticence to experience their feelings. This can show up in all sorts of ways, in low mood...

I was invited recently to be playful with my elbows, to explore what it’s like to really put them out and take up some space. I confess...

It seems to me we are not one, solid, unchanging being, but rather a deeply interconnected web of life from which consciousness arises. ...

We all need some pressure in our lives, it can be stimulating and energising, and help us achieve more than we would if we were never...

“Adaptability does not prioritize drastic change over fierce rigidity. Adaptability is the conversation within us between stability and...

A consistent theme bringing couples into couples counselling is the loss of their sense of togetherness, a loss of intimacy. I often...

I was listening to Andrew Seubert recently talking about The Courage To Feel. I liked the way he described feelings, as embodied...