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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...

I was recently asked some excellent questions: Where do I live as a therapist? What lenses do I use to see through the clinical landscape...

This is a question I ask each person who comes to see me for psychotherapy, in their first session. We talk about what is bringing them,...

“There are so many ways to dance in the dark with our dragons. Therapy is an art.” These words were the conclusion of a training I...

Did you know that your brain reacts to stimuli in 50 milliseconds, but that it may take up to 500 milliseconds for conscious awareness to...

I was reflecting with a colleague this week on the way that encounters with clients cause me to change and grow. It is noticeable that...

Today I want to reflect on some of the differences between working as a psychotherapist with a couple and with an individual. In a...

As part of my work as an EMDR therapist, I often use the Flash Technique, developed by Philip Mansfield as a way of integrating troubling...

As I’ve been digging in my new garden this last week, I have asked why? why? why? How is it possible there are quite so many rocks? How...

“How wonderful it is that no-one need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” Anne Frank It is wonderful, and...

At a recent conference, Roger Soloman spoke eloquently about the work of grieving and how it can be assisted by EMDR psychotherapy. He...

It can take courage to reach out for psychotherapy, especially if you know what you are letting yourself in for. You see, while a...

I’ve been following a debate amongst some fellow psychotherapists recently musing about ‘doing’ and ‘being’ in psychotherapy. You may...

I heard Bessel van der Kolk, he of trauma treatment fame, comment that you can’t do psychotherapy with a client who is not continuously...