How to befriend difficult emotions
First understand your difficult emotions The first step in growing the ability to be with our difficult emotions is to understand them. Befriending these emotions means first to get to know our autonomic …
Therapy Rooms – Establishing Safety in Counselling
When working with people who may easily become overwhelmed, it’s important for me as a counsellor to establish safety for my clients in many ways. This is a priority before any other intervention …
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How to Choose Mental Health Support
One Size Doesn’t Fit All One of the most difficult things in life is to reach out for support. Recurring discouraging experiences can compound the complexity. My clients tell me that they have …
How to Show Up in Relationships?
Safe and supporting relationships enable a person to thrive. As humans we seek to belong whilst wants to pursue our dreams at the same time. These needs form the basis of our interpersonal …
What is the Internal Family Systems model?
The Internal Family Systems (IFS) model is a powerfully transformative, well researched approach to psychotherapy. Its focus is on finding and then addressing the different ‘sub-personalities’ that a person has. IFS believes that …
What Does ‘Resilient Grieving’ Mean?
Before we dive into the meaning of the term ‘resilient grieving’, let’s take a look at the meaning of the word ‘resilient’. Resilience is the ability to bounce back from hardship and difficult …
How Attachment Styles help understand our relationships?
What is Attachment? Attachment was defined by the British psychologist John Bowlby as a ‘lasting psychological connectedness between humans’. Our earliest attachments with parents or caregivers shape our perceptions of and expectations from …
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About Compassion Focussed Therapy
A better understanding of the types of therapy and the many technical terms a skilled counsellor uses can help to increase your comfort with both the idea of therapy and the techniques that …
Polyvagal Theory: A Simplified Explanation
Dr Stephen W. Porges, author of “The Polyvagal Theory” (PVT), examines how different parts of the nervous system respond to stressful situations. The name makes reference to the vagus nerve (vagal meaning ‘wandering’) …
What is the ‘Bottom-Up’ Approach in Therapy?
If you haven’t considered counselling or psychotherapy before, you might be surprised to learn that it actually is very a diverse discipline. There is no ‘one size fits all’ approach. Instead, it helps …
