Understanding Sadness And Worry Sometimes we get the blues for seemingly no reason. It can hit us out of nowhere, and we struggle to understand and validate why we feel that way. These periods of feeling sad and down can really affect us in our daily lives as our relationships struggle, motivation to work suffers,…
Date Rape And Its Impact If you’ve been keeping up with the news as of recently, you’ll be aware of the increasing cases of spiking incidents across the UK. As clubs and individuals across the UK become smarter with spiking preventatives, spiking has taken a sinister turn towards sly injections. However, regardless of how someone…
Can You Return To Therapy? Like any lifestyle change, therapy can present challenges that seem impossible to achieve and exhausting to tackle. Whilst this is all a mindset, you may find yourself wanting to take a break from therapy. Or perhaps some unexpected changes in your life are forcing you to put your mental health…
How To Overcome A Fear Of Intimacy Do you feel as though you’re struggling to connect? Maybe you think you’re not a people person, but do you find yourself wondering if the issue comes from deeper within? Perhaps, you actually crave intimacy. However, you’re afraid of what opening yourself up to a trusting relationship may…
What is Disorganised Attachment? As soon as we are born, we try to form an attachment with our parents or caregivers. We depend upon someone entirely to nurture us, feed us and protect us from a new world; this connection is known as a secure attachment. However, when that trusting bond is violated or abused,…
How To Manage Anger During Therapy Therapy is a highly emotional moment of your life. You are expected to bear yourself to someone that you only know in a professional environment, revealing old traumas and insecurities that have led you to where you are today. Of course, in this intense situation, emotions will run wild;…
How Counselling Can Support Mothers With Postnatal Depression Postnatal depression is a severe mental health condition that needs to be addressed. Affecting around 10-15 women out of 100, it is not a rare condition and can affect many new mothers in what is meant to be some of the happiest days of their lives. Postnatal…
What Is Birth Trauma? Birth trauma is a staggeringly high condition that is not discussed enough. Birth trauma affects 1 in 3 women and can have debilitating effects upon your mental health. Giving birth is meant to be one of the proudest and happiest moments of a woman’s life, so why is it that cases…
Why Is It Essential To Have Regular Reviews In Therapy? Review sessions are used frequently across all forms of therapy; it aims to find out all about you and how you are getting on with the therapy sessions so far. This is also an excellent time for you as the client to discuss whether or…
Light At The End Of The Tunnel: The Process Of Ending Your Therapy Sessions You may not believe this, but therapists want you to be able to conclude your therapy sessions; we want to help you reach the end wherein you are mentally in such a different place that you can continue with your daily…