Counselling for social anxiety and panic attacks/disorder
Panic attacks in whatever form they present, can be terrifying and devastating to a person's life. They can hit us out of the blue when we least expect it and paralyse us. Social anxiety is equally...
View ArticleCounselling for bereavement and loss
Bereavement is our emotional and often multi-layered response to the loss of someone or something we have formed an attachment with. Personal responses to loss can be overwhelming and all consuming,...
View ArticleCounselling and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
PTSD is a severe anxiety disorder which tends to occur following exposure to or experience of a traumatic event/s, which can result in a severe psychological trauma. Often a person's response to such...
View ArticleObsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Often referred to as OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder), is a disorder typified by intrusive thoughts which induce anxiety. This anxiety may then cause you to engage in behaviour intended to reduce...
View ArticleCounselling and infertility/subfertility
For many men and women, discovering they are unable to conceive naturally can be a devastating realisation. Common emotional responses to infertility are a sense of loss, worthlessness, anger, grief,...
View ArticleCounselling and low self-esteem
When I first became a therapist, I was struck by the large numbers of clients who were coming to me with issues around poor self-esteem. It seemed to pervade so many people's lives in some form or...
View ArticleDepression
Depression comes in many guises. It may by characterised by an all-encompassing low mood, low self-steem or a loss of interest in activities or day to day living which would normally give you...
View ArticleRelationships
Relationships play a crucial and fundamental part in determining our happiness and fulfillment. Perhaps the role you assume in relationships is influenced too strongly by negative experiences from the...
View ArticleCounselling and sexuality
How we define ourselves sexually can have a major impact on our lives in lots of different ways and for some, to deny who we feel we really are, can have distressing consequences. Whatever your sexual...
View ArticleGambling addiction
When we consider the term 'addiction', gambling addiction is perhaps the last addiction that may come to mind. Whilst the impact of a gambling addiction may not always be as rapid or obvious as other...
View ArticleStress
Stress is an emotion which can often be dismissed as a 'given' in our lives and many endure it because they feel they have to or because they feel it is somehow part of their daily existence. This...
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