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I want to talk today about a simple tool you can use to increase your awareness of how the relationships in your life impact your...

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

Almost at the end of my series on Erik Erikson’s model of psychosocial development, today I am exploring the seventh stage, that of...

Continuing my series on his model, the sixth stage in Erik Erickson’s model of psychosocial development is that of intimacy and...

"Everything you love will probably be lost, but, in the end, love will return in a different way." Franz Kafka This quote touched me...

The fifth stage in Erik Erickson’s model of psychosocial development, which he suggested occurs in adolescence between the ages of 12-18,...

Week by week I’ve been looking at Erik Erikson’s model of psychosocial development, which is one way of looking at key developmental...

Today I want to talk about the third stage of Erik Erikson’s psychosocial development model, which is one way of explaining the phases we...

Two weeks ago I blogged about stage one of Erik Erikson’s stages of psychosocial development model, today I’m introducing the second...

We come to know ourselves through our interactions with other people. It’s a bit like others hold up a mirror to us, we see ourselves...

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

Time is a funny thing, while sometimes minutes can feel like hours, it’s also true that there are a limited number of hours in the week....

This week is loneliness awareness week, and it seems well timed. As society opens up and we begin to edge out into more social...

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

Do you ever hear yourself say something, and think you sounded just like someone else? It may be a parent, partner, friend, child,...

Most people are aware that relationships with an uneven power balance are not healthy. And yet, many people find themselves...

Change starts with you. Always. It’s tempting when things don’t feel great to want circumstances to be different, to want other people...

I’ve had an interesting experience the last few weeks, with the opportunity to observe the impact of differing expectations on one of my...

Who are you, what you believe to be true about yourself, or what others tell you you are? My sense of it is that we are complex beings. ...

A wise person commented to me recently: “If your heart’s not open, you can’t give or receive.” I was struck by the resonance in me with...