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October is Black history month. While it seems right that we give specific focus to this, I wonder why it is we have only one month in...

In latin, the word for fear is angustiae, and it means a narrowing. I learned this recently, reading Stephen Fry’s excellent Mythos, a...

Oftentimes people coming to psychotherapy report that they are broken. Or inadequate. Or not enough. Or that something is missing. ...

I’ve just finished reading Karen Atkinson’s book about Compassionate Mindful Inquiry, which as a Mindfulness Teacher and Psychotherapist...

Psychotherapy is a relational activity. OK, therapists don’t tell clients biographical details about their lives, and so it’s not the...

I heard this wonderful phrase a few weeks ago, and it has really stayed with me. Amidst the chaos of family life I smiled wryly at the...

After much consideration, I have decided not to see clients face to face in my therapy rooms until at least early 2021. I continue to...

This year is my tenth as a psychotherapist, I find it hard to believe that a decade has passed since I began working with clients. I’m...

I am delighted to have received news that I passed with Distinction my Certificate in Online Counselling through the Academy of Online...

I’ve been experimenting of late with the way I show up in online video psychotherapy sessions. I’d noticed a pattern in the way I was...

A meta-analysis of 26 research studies by Risch et al. (2009) shows that while the risk of experiencing depression is correlated with the...

What does it mean to recover from being traumatized? I like Babette Rothschild’s description. She defines recovery as understanding...

I’m enjoying reading Babette Rothschild’s second volume of The Body Remembers at the moment. I remember the profound influence her first...

“Finding yourself" is not really how it works. You aren't a ten-dollar bill in last winter's coat pocket. You are also not lost. Your...

I came across this quote recently, regretfully I can’t recall where. It got me thinking about the apparent tension of offering Outcome...

We are now a couple of months into a world where psychotherapy is being delivered mostly online. Just six months ago, many practitioners...

“Your mind is not just your brain. Your mind is both your whole body and your relational world.” Dan Siegel I was listening to a seminar...

Carl Rogers described the therapeutic process as one in which we move from fixed to fluid, from closed to open, from rigid to flowing and...

Being a psychotherapist is a wonderfully tough job. Many clients come to us because they are no longer able to contain what is happening...

I received a thank you note recently that prompted me to reflect on just what it was that had enabled me and my client to connect in a...