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6 Pointers on Long Covid
Major caveat here, I’m a Psychotherapist signposting readers to the working theories, research, and professional voices that I have...
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Know Your Exits
When you’re being 'trauma informed', whether towards your own or someone else's, it’s important to clearly and regularly identify exits....
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What Does Growth & Change Actually Look Like?
Sometimes psychological change is really obvious, like one day the leaves are green, then the next they are brown. Change and growth can...
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Overworking is a Threat Response
We are not born high-achieving, work all-hour, perfectionists. It’s not some core facet of our selfhood. Overworking can be a subtle...
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The Fundamental Tension in Conflict
Attachment = We desire to be more or less connected and feeling safe with another person. Authenticity = We also desire to be more or...
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Conflict and Intention Setting
It’s easy to activate someone’s flight/flight/freeze response when your having difficult conversations. Once someone is activated, you’ve...
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Marginal Gains Mentality
Whatever I’m doing on a regular basis is going to have an accumulative effect over time. It’s a commitment to the gradual, the inevitable.
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How well do you Trust?
Our experience of trust is not an on or off switch. It’s a continuum. Our ability to trust is effected by our past experiences, and the...
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Make your iPhone less addictive
Some of the worlds brightest minds are paid lots of money to find ways of getting us to stay on our phones longer. Our attention is...
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Do I have a Chemical Imbalance?
The general public’s belief in that many mental health disorders are caused by an imbalance is still widespread. (1) This post...
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One App to Reduce Anxiety
This exercise and app will help to address the biological aspects of heightened states of being. Practices that focus on the body aim to...
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Therapeutic Rationale
*This blog is taken from my application for accreditation with the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists. The...
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Get Unstuck by Recruiting your Little Professor
This article engages with the parts of us that might feel stuck. By understanding and cultivating a state of being called ‘The little...
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Masks and Our Sense of Social Safety
This article explores how poly vagal theory might help to describe what happens when mask wearing gets in the way of social interaction, ...
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Cold Water Swimming is Hard. Therapeutic Principles Can Help
How can theories of resistance help us with swimming in cold waters, and life in more general? *This blog was originally published with...
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5 Benefits of Email Therapy
Working with a counsellor through email may not be the first thing you would consider when seeking help, but there are some interesting...
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MSc Thesis: Logos, Priming and Help Seeking
Below is my video presentation exploring the research I conducted as part of my MSc in Counselling, and an introduction to the origins of...
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