Back to the future
Relationships - Is it pure coincidence who we end up with? Or are there no accidents?
Bringing your goals to life
Setting goals is important, achieving them enormous. The best goals usually include meaningful actions based largely around our values. This is the work of clients who genuinely strive for self enrichment and long lasting change in their lives.
Here’s my take on successful goal planning through the lens of Acceptance Commitment Therapy or ‘Act’ as it’s known
Re-shaping your future by ‘re-doing’ your past.
In this blog we ask, “is blaming my parents a cop out?”
Do I need therapy?
Who is counselling and therapy intended for, and when is the ‘right’ time to start?
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F.A.C.E. C.O.V.I.D.
This is a great free resource by Act pioneer Russ Harris on effectively responding to COVID. As an Acceptance Commitment Therapist it really spoke to me in the type of work I do with clients, especially around anxiety, depression and overall mental wellbeing.
Acting Out
Running has taught me the importance of hard work, striving to improve and challenging myself to accomplish more. But there was one unexpected lesson I learned many years ago that has had a huge impact on my mental health.
Give yourself healing time.
Learning new, better behaviours takes patience.
Adaptive vs Maladaptive?
It all begins with an idea.
The ‘Healthy Adult’
Schema therapy aims to help people 'build' the 'healthy adult' mode - So what does this look like exactly?
The nine emotions that make us human.
There's 9 basic emotions we all have that make us human.