by admin | Anxiety, Blogs, Emotional Abuse, Rebecca Dallard, Stress
Why Do I Feel Like I Can’t Cope? Modern life is complicated. With so many people making demands on you and so many conflicting and competing agendas, it often seems like there’s too much to do and too little time to get it all done. But sometimes the...
by Rebecca | Blogs, Relationship
“I love you but I’m not in love with you” What Do I Do? Let’s face it – no one in a relationship really wants to hear this. It’s painful and quite hard to accept. Basically, it means that one half of the partnership has decided that the passion and...
by admin | Blogs, Rebecca Dallard
Toxic Behaviours At Work Some people are very difficult to work with. Funnily enough – often the higher up the management chain the more difficult the personality. If you are really unlucky you may even get a boss that the media loves to call a “psychopath”....
by Rebecca | Blogs, Rebecca Dallard
OK so you’ve made the first step and you know you need to talk to someone – someone good, someone who can help – but how do you choose a psychologist? What should you look for? What’s important? Where do you start? Getting the right treatment and practitioner can help...
by Rebecca | Blogs, Personality Disorder, Rebecca Dallard
Do you have a loved one who suffers from a personality disorder? If you do, then you know that it is not only the person with the diagnosis who is affected, but anyone who cares for them. Being close to someone with a personality disorder can feel like...
by admin | Anxiety, Blogs
What is Social Wellbeing? Our health is multidimensional. Social wellbeing along with physical and mental wellbeing contribute to good health. When we experience unease or nervousness in social situations it can be easy to assume that you have social anxiety. This can...
by Viviana Jancso | Blogs, Viviana Jancso
Tips For Maintaining A Healthy Relationship Relationship problems are common. Life can be challenging with so many of us feeling overwhelmed with our day to day stressors. As a result, we often take our partner for granted. This can lead to our partner feeling...
by Rebecca | Blogs, Forgiveness, Rebecca Dallard
What does Forgiving Yourself Even Mean? We all do things we are not proud of. Forgiving yourself and releasing the shame for the ways we have hurt or harmed others can be incredibly difficult. We all struggle with self-forgiveness. We tend to be harder on...
by admin | Blogs, Child Counselling, Our Approaches, Viviana Jancso
Child Therapy – That’s Child’s Play Remember, Play Therapy is not simply play. It needs a trained therapist who can create a safe and secure environment and promote beneficial, therapeutic interactions. We all know children like to play, but many...
by Rebecca | Blogs, Stress
What is Wrong with Me? Why Do I Feel Like This? Lacking Energy? Can’t Get Out of Bed? Difficulty Sleeping? Constantly Grumpy? No Motivation? …Could you be burnt out? Burnout has become a real buzzword. You often hear people casually say “I’m so...
by admin | Alison Bickell, Blogs
It’s normal to feel a sense of stagnation in your job, and it’s reasonable to seek out help to reboot your career. Coaching is a life-affirming forward-looking process that aims to help you realise your potential. Essentially it involves conversations that foster...
by admin | Alison Bickell, Blogs
Compassion fatigue results when someone loses their ability to feel empathy for their clients, loved ones or co-workers because they have been repeatedly exposed to the difficult and traumatic stories and descriptions experienced by others. It is often described as...
by Rebecca | Anxiety, Blogs
What is Anxiety and How Much is Normal? We all experience anxiety at some time in our lives. We feel nervous, worried or apprehensive about an event or situation, maybe a test, the pressure at work or a relationship issue. Usually, the anxiety ends when the...
by Rebecca | Blogs, Child Counselling, Parenting
Children Fighting: What’s Going on? Call it what you will – fighting – arguing, squabbling, bickering, sibling rivalry. It’s exasperating, distressing and mentally exhausting. It’s true that some fighting between siblings, such as quarrelling...
by admin | Assimina Simmons, Blogs
The Joy Of Working With Teenagers While studying to become a Family Therapist I observed that many highly qualified and experienced professionals, many who had raised children into teenagers, were nervous about working therapeutically with teenagers. Indeed, the first...