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I am delighted to have recently trained in the NLPt (neuro-linguistic programming psychotherapy) Trauma Protocol, which provides an...

I took part in some training a short while ago that finished with the wonderful invitation to be fluid, and imperfect. The trainer was...

It’s the natural way of things that most people coming into psychotherapy are not feeling emotionally balanced. They may have suffered a...

I had the pleasure of teaching an NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) Introduction to a small group of local Counselling Degree students...

I’ve made a few changes in my office lately, increasing my level of physical comfort when I am working. I’m noticing a significant...

We all have habitual ways of behaving. They are comfortable and normal, and mostly they are not even on our radar, we just act and speak...

“If we could allow the pace of our meetings to slow down to the pace of our hearts, we might find genuine understanding.” Marion Woodman...

Sometimes life circumstances become very difficult in a way that is not going to quickly resolve itself. I'm thinking of situations like...

I’m deeply reflective at the moment about the interactive dance that is a therapeutic relationship. Clients come, bringing with them...

For therapeutic work to be successful, clients need to be feeling regulated, in other words they need to be calm and relaxed, so that...

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

There are two key questions that many clients want to address when they come for an initial session of psychotherapy, and they are...

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

When relationships end, it can be difficult. Particularly if you did not want things to change. It may be that a romantic relationship...

I often blog about self-help techniques and approaches those interested can use to support their well-being and emotional health. I like...

Psychotherapy is intended to be an authentic encounter. An intimate, enabling space in which we as clients can be utterly who we are...

It’s hard to beat the feeling of really being with someone. That feeling of parent and child spontaneously connecting in an experience. ...

On a training course a while ago, I heard a metaphor for therapy that I liked. The trainer described the role of a therapist ole as that...

The work of psychotherapy is vast and deep. Themes running through the many ways it can help are enabling clients to learn how to...

Couples counselling works best when there is a common goal that is meaningful and congruent for both partners. Where this is not the...