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I am often asked to help friends and acquaintences find a counsellor who is local to them, and for advice about how to decide who to choose if there is more than one in their area. So I thought I would post this extract from an article I wrote for Staffordshire Living magazine in July …
Many people come to counselling when a relationship is on the rocks, or they are struggling to cope with being left, cheated on, or trying to move on after a painful break-up. These clients often feel a need to deal with the ‘baggage’ of their current or recently ended relationship, and any negative effects this …
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Many of my single clients express dread when Valentine’s Day looms: cards in shop windows, adverts on TV, loved-up couples in restaurants are all unwelcome reminders that they are alone and without that special someone in their lives. If this rings true for you, then how about spending this Valentine’s weekend practising the art of …
The Government’s new strategy ‘No Health Without Mental Health‘ was announced on Wednesday,with £400m being pledged over four years to extend the IAPT scheme (Improving Access to Psychological Therapies) so that talking therapies, including counselling, will be more widely available – especially to children and young people. Six objectives have been set out in the …
Counselling in the News: Reaction to new government strategy on mental health Read More »
In the wake of the recent house fire in Hulland Ward, Nr Ashbourne in which four young children tragically lost their lives, I was interviewed on Monday by Phil Trow on BBC Radio Derby’s breakfast show. We discussed the likely impact of the tragedy on the children in the local community who knew Tommy (9), …
I was interested to see a piece in ‘Therapy Today’, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy’s professional journal, yesterday complaining about the way fictional characters with mental health problems are portrayed on television. Having just seen the second part of BBC’s ‘Silent Witness’ a couple of nights before, I was already fuming about this …
TV dramas unhelpful and misleading portrayal of mental illness Read More »
I had planned to write a long blog post today in protest at Janet Street Porter’s recent ignorant and offensive article in The Daily Mail, as I felt the need to defend the female and male sufferers of stress and depression she so insensitively derided. However, Diane Foy of Coming Out of the Dark beat …
Let them bake cakes! Janet Street Porter dismisses depression as a “new trendy illness” Read More »
How to raise a happy, well-adjusted child is one of the biggest sources of angst for modern parents. Child psychologists Laverne Antrobus and Oliver James discuss this challenge in a recent interview on Radio 4. Listen to Between Ourselves: Series 5: Episode 5
Young Minds, the UK’s leading charity committed to improving the emotional well being and mental health of children and young people, have expressed their frustration over the lack of commitment to young people’s wellbeing in the wake of yesterday’s decision to scrap parts of the Children, Schools and Families Bill, including plans to make Personal …
