Counselling Blog

I can't believe it's nearly April and I am writing my first blog post of 2021! Well, what a year it's been so far. I hope 2021 has been...

Hi Everyone! I am sorry it's been a few months since my last blog post, where did that time go! As you can imagine it's been really busy...

Good vibes only please! I am going to breathe in positivity and breathe out negativity! Just be positive! How many times do we hear...

On average we speak between 7,000 & 20,000 words a day (Brizendine, 2006) but how much do we hear? I am a busy therapist so I imagine I...

How many times have you heard the following phrases "during this time", "these unprecedented times", "coronavirus crisis", "the new...

So how is everyone doing? I'll be honest, I've found this time a little stressful. I've not written a blog for a while as I didn't feel...

Coronavirus

A different kind of conversation

I've gone back into the therapy room for this month's blog post and looked at what's been discussed frequently between myself & my...

Usually I have a long list of things to blog about but for this month's issue I've been drawing a blank. I am not usually stuck for ideas...

As the darker mornings and evenings draw in, the leaves fall from the trees and Christmas food starts creeping onto supermarket shelves...

What is reality? It sounds like such a simple question but doesn't always give us the answer we'd like. Albert Einstein put it like this...

Acceptance - what is it? how do you learn it? can you lose it? It's such an easy word to say but sometimes so difficult to do. As a...

Do I? Don't I? How often do you find yourself at a crossroads trying to make a decision? Decisions are a daily part of life, some studies...

It just so happens that the usual week for my monthly blog post also falls on Mental Health Awareness Week. It seems as if mental health...

Have you ever thought about doing something and decided against it as you thought it wasn't for you? How many times have you then been...

In one of my first blog posts I highlighted that only 7% of the way we communicate is through the words we use. So much is focused on how...

It's a common misconception that all therapy, and therefore all therapists, are the same. If that were true life would be boring wouldn't...

So apparently today is now known as "Blue Monday". The third Monday of January shall forever be labelled as the most depressing day of...

Happy New Year to you all. How many of us now hear "new year new me", "what's your new years resolutions?" and "this is the start of a...