With so many different types of psychotherapy and counselling available, it can be hard to know which type is right for you. Should you try CBT or Mindfulness or Psychodynamic Counselling? In my experience, often, what matters most is to … Read More
Traumatic experience leaves a particular marker behind it. Unless given attention, it becomes like a sealed moment in a life. Though time passes and our lives move on, however much older we become, the traumatic experience remains within us. However, … Read More
By yourself you may tend to see the difficult moods you experience as just being part of who you are. So, for example, your relationships may tend to start to feel like they are all the same, that they involve … Read More
Have you thought what it would be like if a parent turned their back on a child and failed to bond with them? It is a strange, awful thing to happen and leaves the child with a serious and maddening … Read More
Psychotherapy is a way of developing a safe and confidential relationship aimed at understanding and improving psychological health. It aims at bringing relief to problematic subjects, and experiences of suffering. A psychotherapist will have trained in particular theories and practice. … Read More
When you have experienced a profoundly difficult event, perhaps an accident, or discovering your partner has been unfaithful. Though it looks to the world like you have recovered and are your normal self, you may remain deeply shaken. A profound … Read More
Living differently, changing the way we live, involves making a decision to do things differently. The first stage is recognising the choices and decisions that we make. The day we live today, with all of the outcomes that will come … Read More
You need luck, no matter how much talent, drive and desire you have. Without luck you may find it hard to get your ideas and projects off the ground no matter how good they are. In mythology, folklore and fairy … Read More
A profound loss of confidence is often a consequence of accidents and events. When something happens out of the blue it can leave you shaken. The impact on individuals of a death, or a painful family break up, or witnessing … Read More
Bipolar Disorder is a mood disorder that is characterised by alternating periods of mania and depression. It was formerly known as manic depression. People with Bipolar Disorder can swing from extreme highs to extreme lows, sometimes very quickly. This can … Read More
Where there has been trauma, particularly trauma that involves one person sexually abusing another, then the victim is often left in a state of shame. It becomes impossible to speak of what has happened. The victim becomes locked in a … Read More
I am a member of the Association of Independent Psychotherapists, I trained as a supervisor with the SAP, I have an MA in Psychotherapy & Counselling, and I work to both the UKCP and the BACP Code of Ethics. If … Read More
I am a UKCP registered psychotherapist and counsellor working in Hazlemere, near High Wycombe, in Buckinghamshire. Before starting in private practice I trained in the NHS at St Barts’ Hospital in London and before that at the Homerton Hospital in … Read More