A happy New Year to all my readers, connections, supporters, and not least, clients past – present and future. Of the two hundred and fifty blog posts I’ve published, over the past four years, I thought as we hurtle towards 2016 I would share a reminder of the diversity of some of those from 2015. [Read more…]
As a counsellor, or indeed any therapist, we are limited to the value we can achieve for our clients by our available skills and scope… but also the clients own willingness or ability to collaborate. [Read more…]
I was intrigued by a discussion within a group on Linkedin this week. A therapist asked if the group thought that publicly displaying a counsellor’s image was “tacky or useful“? [Read more…]
Are you serious? (Heh!)
One of our most common challenges in life can be coping with emotional distress. We endure concerns in life, brushing them aside in the hope they will resolve or go away of their own volition, or commonly, and especially in the workplace, we are expected to just get through. [Read more…]
I decided to write this post – one of a series of three – partly in response to a recent query from concerned friends and relatives of someone who could really benefit from that which counselling therapy can provide and who is struggling to reconcile ‘himself’ with the possibility of the same; and also for general consumption, in an attempt to clarify the practice and to help reduce any stigma that might be attached. [Read more…]