Why Do I Hate Social Situations?
Why Can’t I Make Friends? “I don’t hate people, I just feel better when they aren’t around.” Charles Bukowski Does This Quote Resonate With You? Social situations are fraught with discomfort for the...
Making A Change In Your Life?
Why Is It So Hard To Make A Change? Change is difficult, really difficult. It is even more challenging to have any change last into the future. Be it healthy eating, going to the gym, quitting smoking, reducing alcohol intake and so on, habits are hard to break and it...
Anxiety
The Anxiety Response is a Normal Reaction to an Event Anxiety can be really distressing and colour your everyday experiences with tension and make life generally uncomfortable. Anxiety is fast becoming the most commonly diagnosed mental health...
Why Can’t I Cope?
Why Do I Feel Like I Can't Cope? Modern life is complicated. With so many people making demands on you and so many conflicting and competing agendas, it often seems like there’s too much to do and too little time to get it all done. But sometimes the pressure...
My Partner Loves Me But Is Not IN LOVE With Me.
“I love you but I’m not in love with you” What Do I Do? Let’s face it - no one in a relationship really wants to hear this. It’s painful and quite hard to accept. Basically, it means that one half of the partnership has decided that the passion and...
Dealing With Toxic Behaviours at Work
Toxic Behaviours At Work Some people are very difficult to work with. Funnily enough – often the higher up the management chain the more difficult the personality. If you are really unlucky you may even get a boss that the media loves to call a “psychopath”....
How Do You Choose the Right Psychologist?
OK so you’ve made the first step and you know you need to talk to someone – someone good, someone who can help – but how do you choose a psychologist? What should you look for? What’s important? Where do you start? Getting the right treatment and practitioner can help...
When Your Loved One Has a Personality Disorder
Do you have a loved one who suffers from a personality disorder? If you do, then you know that it is not only the person with the diagnosis who is affected, but anyone who cares for them. Being close to someone with a personality disorder can feel like...
Social Wellbeing & Social Anxiety
What is Social Wellbeing? Our health is multidimensional. Social wellbeing along with physical and mental wellbeing contribute to good health. When we experience unease or nervousness in social situations it can be easy to assume...
Avoid Relationship Problems | 4 Key Tips for A Healthy Relationship
Tips For Maintaining A Healthy Relationship Relationship problems are common. Life can be challenging with so many of us feeling overwhelmed with our day to day stressors. As a result, we often take our partner for granted. This can lead to our partner feeling...
Forgiving Yourself: 10 Tips
What does Forgiving Yourself Even Mean? We all do things we are not proud of. Forgiving yourself and releasing the shame for the ways we have hurt or harmed others can be incredibly difficult. We all struggle with self-forgiveness. We tend to be harder on...
Child Therapy – Play Based
Child Therapy - That’s Child’s Play Remember, Play Therapy is not simply play. It needs a trained therapist who can create a safe and secure environment and promote beneficial, therapeutic interactions. We all know children like to play, but many people...
Am I Burnt Out?
What is Wrong with Me? Why Do I Feel Like This? Lacking Energy? Can’t Get Out of Bed? Difficulty Sleeping? Constantly Grumpy? No Motivation? ...Could you be burnt out? Burnout has become a real buzzword. You often hear people casually say “I’m so burned...
5 Reasons to Engage an Executive Coach
It’s normal to feel a sense of stagnation in your job, and it’s reasonable to seek out help to reboot your career. Coaching is a life-affirming forward-looking process that aims to help you realise your potential. Essentially it involves conversations that foster...
Do I Have Compassion Fatigue?
Compassion fatigue results when someone loses their ability to feel empathy for their clients, loved ones or co-workers because they have been repeatedly exposed to the difficult and traumatic stories and descriptions experienced by others. It is often described as...
Do I Have Anxiety?
What is Anxiety and How Much is Normal? We all experience anxiety at some time in our lives. We feel nervous, worried or apprehensive about an event or situation, maybe a test, the pressure at work or a relationship issue. Usually, the anxiety ends when the...
Your Children’s Fighting Driving You Crazy?
Children Fighting: What’s Going on? Call it what you will - fighting - arguing, squabbling, bickering, sibling rivalry. It’s exasperating, distressing and mentally exhausting. It’s true that some fighting between siblings, such as quarrelling or...
How Does a Family Therapist Engage Teenagers?
The Joy Of Working With Teenagers While studying to become a Family Therapist I observed that many highly qualified and experienced professionals, many who had raised children into teenagers, were nervous about working therapeutically with teenagers. Indeed, the first...