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Why Is Therapy Hard Work? What to Expect from the Counselling Process
You come to therapy to get help, right? You recognise you have some kind of problem and it needs fixing! You explain the problem to…
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What type of counselling works best?
The most common question that follows when I tell people I’m a counsellor is “ooh… what do you specialise in??”. It’s a common misconception that…
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Why do I have to pay for counselling in advance?
The subject of money is a funny thing. For some people, it is the most important thing; it’s the thing that they work for, it’s…
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What happens in a counselling session?
Starting counselling can seem quite daunting at first, especially if you’ve never had therapy before. Not all therapists work in the same way but my…
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What is On-Line Therapy?
The basis of any effective therapy is the quality of the relationship between the client (you!) and the therapist (me!). If you don’t ‘gel’, you…
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Will Counselling Help Me?
Who is Counselling for? You might think counselling is for people who have suffered terrible trauma in their life. People who have been abused and…
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What is Counselling?
At its most basic, counselling is being listened to. Obviously there’s more to it than that, or else it wouldn’t take so long to qualify…
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“Why Expressing Your Feelings Matters: How Counselling Helps
Feel the Feelings… In counselling, we talk a lot about feelings. I often hear people judging their feelings: wondering whether they should feel that way,…
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How to Be Kinder to Yourself: Understanding Your Inner Critic
How do you speak to yourself? Being a therapist, I have the privilege to hear a lot of the thoughts that people have in their…
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When is the right time for therapy?
A reflective post about why waiting for the perfect moment to start therapy can keep us stuck, and how counselling can help you find calm…