3 Steps to Journaling with Impact
Almost every self-help approach will advocate Journaling as a tool for emotional processing, but so often it simply...
Read Post
What is a Personality Disorder?
Distress, Dysfunction, DangerA person has a disorder of their personality when they don’t feel safe and secure in...
Read Post
Is Procrastination Limiting Your Progress?
Procrastination is a non-specific symptom. This means it is a general indicator that there is a problem, but gives no...
Read Post
Book Review: Angel, Angel
Author(s): April Stevens Penguin Books (1995) Review by Kael Cockcroft What It's About The story of a mother's desperate...
Read Post
Is Mindfulness Useful in Therapy?
What is Mindfulness? Currently, this fashionable catchphrase is everywhere and promoted as the cure for everything from...
Read Post
Can Depression Sometimes Be Helpful
Isolation has Forced us to Face Ourselves Depression is a known phenomenon; we know what it looks like and what it does...
Read Post
Contact Between Therapy Sessions
Why do therapists not allow or limit contact outside of arranged session times? Surely the more contact the better and...
Read Post
The Fixed Fighters & The Fuzzy Flighty
Threat Management (5) In this final blog of the series on common strategies that everyday people use to survive situations...
Read Post
Controlling Social Space
Threat Management (4) In summary so far, the responses outlined above are the immediate moving aggressively towards...
Read Post
Collapsing to Survive
Threat Management (3) When working with people adapting to horrible circumstances and then supporting them to make a...
Read Post
Pleasing Others to Cope
Threat Management (2) Surely, there must be more than just our automatic biological reaction to immediate danger. In...
Read Post
Beyond Fight/Flight/Freeze
Threat Management (1) We are generally quite familiar with descriptions of our Fight or Flight response to immediate...
Read Post
Myths and Misunderstandings about Self-Harm
Myth 1: People who self-harm are attempting suicide Fact: Self-harm is most often used as a way to keep living despite...
Read Post
What is Self-Harming?
In its broadest sense, self-harm describes a wide range of acts that people do to themselves in a deliberate and usually...
Read Post
Borderline Personality Disorder in the Media
Many of my clients are devastated at the very suggestion that they have a mental health diagnosis, especially one as...
Read Post
Don’t let your worst review define you
When it comes to reviews, the risk and reward can range from incredibly uplifting and validating to brutally crushing....
Read Post
Key Tips for Surviving Auditions
Auditions are a big deal! Treat them as such, but don’t let them define you. Now that’s a difficult balance...
Read Post