Posted on October 7, 2020 by admin
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‘When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.’ Viktor E. FranklPsychiatrist & Existential Psychotherapist(1905 – 1997) 2020 has undoubtedly been a year of profound change. It appears that there has not been a single area in…
Category: Blog, Counselling, Mental and Emotional Health, Online Counselling Tags: Access to Counselling, Anxiety, Anxiety UK, BMA, Breathing, Change, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Creative Visualisation, Depression, Emotional Responsibility, Face Coverings, Good Feelings, Hypnotherapy, Mental Health, Mental Health Services, MIND, Mindfulness, Negative Coping Strategies, NICE, Online Counselling, Positive Emotions, Problem Drinking, Ratio Breathing, Relationships, Relaxation, Resilience, Samaritans, Special Place, Stress, Supportline, Thoughts, Uncertainty, Viktor Frankl, Young Minds
Posted on September 3, 2020 by admin
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‘Tell me what you fear, and I will tell you what has happened to you’ Donald W. Winnicott (1896-1971) ‘Evolution is arranged so that a species survives, not so that it will be happy while it survives.’ Albert Ellis (1913-2007) So how are you…
Category: Coronavirus Support Tags: Albert Ellis, Anxiety, Compassion, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Donald W Winnicott, Lockdown, Pandemic, Perfectionism, Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy, REBT, Stress, Women's Aid
Posted on March 23, 2020 by admin
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Nobody told me there’d be days like these Nobody told me there’d be days like these Nobody told me there’d be days like these Strange days indeed — strange days indeed (John Lennon) In the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic profound changes to our…
Category: Coronavirus Support Tags: Activities, Anxiety, AnxietyUK, Change, Connection, Coping Strategies, Coronavirus, Creative Visualisation, Depression, Goals, Hypnotherapy, Isolation, John Lennon, Lockdown, MIND, Mindfulness, Pandemic, Psychological Health, Relationships, Resources, Routine, Social Connection, Social Distancing, Social Media, Technology, YoungMinds
Posted on September 30, 2018 by admin
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Owning Your Shadow Self The highly original and influential novelist Ursula K. Le Guin died in January of this year. She leaves behind a wonderful body of work that depicts fantastic and futuristic worlds such as The Earthsea Trilogy (1968-1974) and The Left Hand…
Category: The Unconscious Tags: Acceptance, Autheticity, Carl Jung, Compassion, Coping Strategies, Jung, Projection, Repression, Scapegoating, Self Empowerment, Shadow, Shadow Self, Spliting, Stress, Ursula Le Guin
Posted on May 8, 2017 by admin
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Mental Health Awareness Week 2017: 8-14 May. This week is Mental Health Awareness Week, with the aim to increase awareness and end the stigma surrounding mental health. Mental health has been a source of fear and misunderstanding for centuries. The spectre of the ‘Mental…
Category: Mental Health Awareness Week Tags: BACP, BPS, Community Care, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Early Intervention, Good Mental Health, Mental Health, Mental Health Act 1983, Mental Health Awareness Week, MentalHealth.org.uk, MIND, NHS, NICE, NICE Guidelines, Place2be, Prince Harry, Psychotherapy.org, Theresa May, YoungMinds.org.uk
Posted on December 15, 2016 by admin
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How are you feeling – right at this moment? Are you Happy? Excited? Anxious? Does it seem that there is so much going on that you feel overwhelmed? This is a time of year when many of us come together to celebrate, have fun…
Category: Christmas Tags: Anxiety, Biochemicals, Celebration, Connection, Coping Strategies, Dr Christiane Northrup, Dr Mario Martinez, Fallibility, Family, Friends, Gifts, Mindfulness, Negative Emotions, Neurotransmitters, Perfectionism, Rigid Beliefs, Rituals, Sadness, Self Care, Stress, Stressful Thoughts, Thoughts, Traditions, Well Being
Posted on November 10, 2016 by admin
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As the information in the our section on Workplace Counselling indicates there are lots of reasons why someone might suffer from stress in the workplace. Some of these reasons will include: the expectations of the organisation and the job, the work-place culture, changes in…
Category: Workplace Counselling Tags: Anxiety, Childhood, Childhood Experiences, Core Beliefs, Fraud, Inadequacy, Interpersonal Relationships, Irrational Feelings, Job, Negative Thinking, Organisation, Perfectionism, Rigid Beliefs, Role, Siblings, Stress, Work-Life Balance, Workplace Culture
Posted on October 9, 2016 by admin
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Why does a person come for counselling? Well it can be for many reasons. Perhaps they have experienced some trauma in their lives – the death of a loved one, the loss of a relationship, something unexpected, or even shocking, that has caused them…
