November 24, 2020
10 Xmas 2020 Coping Tips!
10 Xmas 2020 Coping Tips! The Christmas period can be a stressful time of year, especially in COVID times! (Living Through COVID ) ? This year we may try to make a choice to either create new memories & traditions or attempt to remain true to our old ways of celebrating. (Anxiety Workbook ). There has been […]
Love & Misunderstandings at Christmas!
Love & Misunderstandings at Christmas! We are human. We love. We care, We get it wrong! This Christmas period is more complex than probably any other in our lifetimes ( 10 Xmas Coping Strategies! Be At Your Best!) Christmas can be a tinder box of emotions in more normal times but this year there are […]
April 17, 2020
Moving on from Lockdown..
Moving On From Lockdown.. Following on from my last blog, But I Want To Help!!, I decided that counsellors and Coaches would be needed to treat all of the trauma that COVID-19 has induced. Trauma is everywhere, isn’t it ? As a therapist I see trauma in all of my clients. Not PTSD necessarily, […]
April 13, 2020
But I Want To Help!!
Even as a young child..I wanted to Help! I have always, since I was a young child, felt the need to help others. I am practical person and can turn my hand to most things. I take after my Mum, who I miss every day. Her first comment upon hearing of anyone having issues, emotional, […]
April 08, 2020
Now Is The Time!
Now is the Time… We are in unprecedented times. Who would have predicted that we would end up in a pandemic situation. A truly global threat that is derailing everybody’s way of life. We have been in lock down for just 2 weeks and yet it seems to have become the norm. The threat […]
November 20, 2019
Social Services: Letting Young People Down?
Social Services failure of Purpose Social Services is seeing an ever increasing demand set against austerity measures ( Social Services Hiding Inefficiency behind Austerity… ) Society is more complex than ever, less cohesive and less supportive than when people lived in back street terraced communities. It really does take a village to raise a child […]
October 30, 2019
Parenting older Children
Parenting Children who are now Adults ( Nearly!) This is a phase that we all go through if we have children but little is talked about how to make this essential transition into a different relationship with our children as they mature. We have to evolve or we stand to alienate our children and […]
August 27, 2019
Transitions for Young People with Additional Needs can be Traumatic..
Transitions for Young People with Additional Needs can be Traumatic.. Times of Transition are crucial for those with additional needs I write this blog as we are approaching the Autumn term. This time of year is always difficult within our family because historically, every year since our son, who is now 17, has entered […]
July 17, 2019
Transitions into the Fall
Summer Ending is a Time of Transition I am very aware of the poignancy of transitions, partly due to the fact that I, like many others, are prone to feeling gloomy in the darker months. For me, this sense of impending winter starts tickling at my psyche just after the summer solstice. I […]
June 20, 2019
Therapy Can Change your View of life to Date…
Therapy changes perception of life to date.. This is a video about how therapy changes the lenses that you use to view your life, this alters the perception and the story of your life. Therapy reframes life events.. It helps to reframe life’s ups and downs, resolving old hurts and processing body held sensations into […]
