Trust is essential for therapy. Here are some signs you trust your therapist.

An exploration of looking at power and opression in therapy as a means for greater self-understanding for clients

Explore what therapy endings can teach us about ourselves and different responses to endings

This post explains what makes the therapy relationship unique and why it matters

For general information about starting something new, read this post first . Writing about our lives and experiences is a tool that...

Why is it so hard to try a new thing? To do something different? This post explores why change is hard and how to work through barriers

Setting boundaries is the advice we keep hearing, this post outlines some of the reasons it is more challenging than it seems

Most people who start therapy are looking to bring about some type of change in their lives. Change can and does happen as a result of...

In training, we’re taught a whole lot of rules and guidelines for best practice in counselling. Many of these have been created for the...

There is a lot of different terminology that we use in therapy and when talking about therapy that we often fail to explain. In this...

There’s a video clip from ‘Inside Out’ that I often use to show the different purposes of our emotions and it ends on the question of why...

We’re quick to dismiss our emotions, to push them away and to judge them. This post follows a closer look at anxiety which you can read...

We all have an inner critic, a part inside us that has a tendency to criticise, blame and be pretty brutal to us when we make mistakes....

This is the first in a series of posts about getting to know some frequently experienced emotions more intimately. We use language for...

What makes your heart happy? A question that is often met with a blank stare because the reality is that we rarely spend time considering...

The final post in this series is focused on emotional expression. This is another challenging part of regulating emotions that requires...

We looked at an overview of emotions here so now it's time to start exploring what to do with them! Have you ever been told that you need...

Anxiety, depression, anger… we spend a lot of time looking at emotions separately, but we often do this before having a basic...

Whilst there is a lot of discourse around therapy in the media, it can still seem a bit mysterious and you might be wondering what you...