May 26, 2021
10 Tips to Improve Your Emotional Intelligence
What is Emotional Intelligence(EI)? Emotional Intelligence (EI) means that you can understand your own feelings and reactions. This helps you to manage your own responses and stay in control High Functioning Anxiety…Is This You?. Once you understand your own emotions you can then understand those of others. This is the key to success in all […]
March 02, 2021
Help! My University Child is Stressed!!!
How can I help my University child? It can be an emotional journey when your child (now an adult but always your child) leaves for University Transitions into the Fall. Seeing your child head off with most of their belongings can leave some parents bereft for a while. This marks an end to an era. […]
January 26, 2021
What is Integrative Counselling?
Integrative Counselling is?… That is a very good question! I decided to retrain as a therapist some years ago. I looked at all of the different courses available and opted for a Diploma in Integrative Therapeutic Counselling at a local college. I love a bit of research but looking back, I did not research […]
October 09, 2020
10 Tips to Thrive in a Covid Winter
10 Tips to Thrive in a Covid Winter In March we thought that it would soon be over. The onset of COVID had been unprecedented in our lifetime Living Through COVID. The death rates rising on the banner underneath the news broadcaster was paralysing for some. Fear took grip. Panic buying of loo rolls […]
June 28, 2020
Lockdown is Ending but ‘Judge Softly’
Easing of Lockdown Yesterday, I was driving to meet up with a friend in an outside space. The news was on the radio about the easing of the Lockdown. Pubs, clubs, cinemas can all open as of the 4th of July. The recommended social distance will then be 1 meter. A spectre of hope that […]
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, […]
July 02, 2019
Grief: A complex Human Response to Loss
Grief & Loss are Part of being Alive.. Grief happens. As humans we experience loss if we live. It can not be avoided or hidden from, it is just a part of life. A part of life that most would prefer not to experience but experiencing it on some level is inevitable. Grief is […]
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 […]
April 01, 2019
Surviving..Teens!
Children arrive in different ways; birth, adoption, surrogacy, fostering, step children…Each child is unique, even if the birth parents are the same. We are all born to be …us. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ No child comes with a set of rules for parenting, most of us make it up as we go along. One size definitely does not […]