Ideas for what to do to support the therapy process in between sessions

This explores what the "quarter-life crisis" is and how we can begin to explore its meaning

This post talks about what mindfulness is, challenges of practicing and small ways to get started

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

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...

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 to learn how to control your emotions? Or that you feel ‘too much’? Me too. The problem with these types of messages is that they never tell us how to manage our emotions and are often about other people’s discomfort with our feelings. Emotional regulation refers to our ability to exert control over our emotions. We all have strategies f

Anxiety, depression, anger… we spend a lot of time looking at emotions separately, but we often do this before having a basic understanding of emotions as a whole. Knowledge of what emotions are, their believed purpose and our beliefs about them can be helpful. So, let’s take a look at emotions… What is an emotion? Even this is not a straightforward question to answer! There are lots of definitions floating around and theories about ‘primary’ emotions but I’m not going to bor

If you've had therapy before, the answer to the question of what you can talk about in therapy might seem obvious. But for those coming...