Blog
ADHD and Neurodiversity in counselling
I have worked with many people with ADHD and autism. Neurodiversity describes the differences in the way that people's brains work...
Internal Family Systems Therapy
Internal Family Systems Therapy, IFS is a transformative tool that conceives every human being as a system of protective and wounded inner parts lead by a core...
Using sand tray in the therapy room
Sand tray therapy uses sand and a variety of objects such as shells stones and small figures and toys to create stories that represent a person’s inner world...
Is counselling for you? Small steps for lifting the mood.
We can find ourselves in a dip and not sure why. Post-holiday blues, the menopause, children leaving home, family worries, ageing parents...
Walking talking therapy
When we move and shift our environment, we may find that we can think differently about aspects of our lives that may have before seemed unchangeable...
Window of tolerance
When we are pushed beyond the edges of the window of tolerance we experience hyper or hypo arousal. Understanding this can be life changing...
On Supervision – a blog for Practitioners
Ideally we come to Supervision with trust and an openness that we can speak candidly about challenges in client work openly...
On bereavement
Bereavement counselling is a space to honour the person who has died and the feelings around that loss be it anger or sorrow...
Working together online
One good outcome of the pandemic has been establishing the effectiveness of online counselling. This enables us to meet and work together wherever you are via zoom...
The Humanistic Approach to Counselling and Attraction to Hurt
Sometimes, the things we do to protect ourselves turn on us and hurt us. Through counselling we can explore patterns...
Contribution from Hurt and Attraction to Hurt in the Counselling process
How Contribution from Hurt is a powerful way of coming through our issues with the help of counselling...
Children and The Pendulum
If you come to counselling the whole family can benefit. I am systemically trained and we often talk about family dynamics and relationships...
Codependency and Referrals in the Counselling Process
When another person’s behaviour has taken over, counselling can identify ways to regroup and live your own life...
Feelings of Accomplishment and Purpose in client work
Purpose is powerful and the area in which we can best develop. It can determine the flow of our Feelings of Accomplishment...
Restructuring in Systemic Family Therapy
Through gestalt interventions such as two chair work, this blog gives a glimpse of systemic family therapy which can inform-one to-one work...
The Pendulum
Through counselling, an in-depth understanding of the pendulum can make a profound difference to some peoples lives...
Gestalt therapy – a brief introduction
Through Gestalt counselling you can learn that being aware of their internal self is key to understanding why you react and behave in certain ways...
Therapeutic True Rest
Come to counselling and explore your relationship with true rest and how you can build it into your life...
Addiction and The Pendulum in the Counselling Process
Addiction can act as a barrier between a person and their pain. Understanding the pendulum model through counselling has the potential to be life-changing...
Boundaries and Relationships in working towards change
Healthy boundaries in relationships do not come naturally to some people. Through counselling it is possible to explore what reasonable boundaries look like...
