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

“When your eyes seek and your heart is open, that is true brave” - Anne with an E I just loved this line when I heard it while watching...

These words speak so eloquently for themselves, I hope they touch you as they do me. Epitaph - By Merrit Malloy When I die Give what’s...

I discovered recently that the root of the word alone is all-one. Clarissa Pinkola Estes expresses this beautifully, saying “To be all...

A theme I often return to is play, and its importance. I was first introduced to this concept back in 2008 by Stephen Gilligan with his...

I was thrilled to receive a new fuchsia last week - a tall dark leaved variety with a profusion of flowers called ‘Bella.’ I’ve planted...

In my twenties, I recall going on a Dale Carnegie training course, and being told ‘seek first to understand, and then to be understood.’ ...

“Most people are afraid of suffering. But suffering is a kind of mud to help the lotus flower of happiness grow. There can be no lotus...

Having recently planted my garden with a variety of plants from tiny to mature, I noticed this week a little delphinium that was...

I’ve been looking out of my therapy room window, noticing the increasingly long grass of my newly laid lawn. I’ve read so many...

I just love my garden at this time of year. My therapy room looks out onto it, and it is delighting me to notice that sometimes hour to...

“You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone,...

I’ve been reflecting on the continual change and uncertainty that our current environment presents us with, and its impact on well-being....

I’m sat in my new office, writing my blog. It’s taken four long months to transform this patch of earth from deadened concreted to a new...

“I’m not looking to escape my darkness, I am learning to love myself there” Rune Lazuli Wishing you a weekend of self-love, of shade, and...

When reading about the Internal Family Systems approach to psychotherapy recently, I was reminded of the idea that we each have a ‘self’...

"Be still and listen, the earth is singing" I was standing in the garden recently, just after a deluge of rain, and this quote came into...

In my work, I work with energy. People come to see a psychotherapist because they want to move towards, or away from experiences. They...

Death and Dying are not subjects people much like to talk about. And yet, it is a universal experience that we go through. People we...

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” ―...