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Life often goes at a rapid pace and we can get swept along, moving from one thing to the next without pausing for breath. When you stop,...

At a yoga class recently I was reminded of the importance of staying grounded. As we moved into a sequence of balances I had not done...

On Easter Island, there are a series of big heads that have always been assumed to be just that, big heads. It has been discovered that...

Don’t think about a purple elephant. When you read that, what happened? A purple elephant in all probability came to mind. I’ll bet you...

A man found a cocoon of a butterfly, that he brought home. One day a small opening appeared in the cocoon. He sat and watched the cocoon...

I had an interesting experience recently that got me musing on the importance of names and labels. A new acquaintance kept referring to...

When a patient visits a medical doctor, that doctor is considered an expert, and it is hoped they have tangible solutions to the problems...

Being intimate is often thought of as being closely in touch with someone else, with the focus being very much on the other person and...

I am lover of poppies.  Earlier in the summer, I sewed some seeds, eagerly anticipating their blooms outside my therapy room. Imagine my...

I have spent the last couple of months watching the growth of a sunflower in my garden. As it has grown, pairs of leaves have emerged,...

There are two key questions that many clients want to address when they come for an initial session of psychotherapy, and they are...

Sitting down with a psychotherapist can be a daunting prospect. For many people, doing so with someone we love is even more tricky. The...

When others don't share your perspective, its easy to get angry. How dare they disregard you? Why are they not doing what you thought...

It seems there is an ongoing debate between differing approaches in therapeutic circles. Is psychotherapy at its best when we are...

Grieving can be a difficult, complicated business. We each grieve differently, there is no one response, and there is certainly no...

Oftentimes when clients come to therapy, they are suffering with symptoms that are dominating their current experience of life. It may...

"What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul" So many times what people most need is to recognise what they are thinking and...

I have been reflecting of late on the way that fear can create prisons for us, stopping us from doing things. It can prevent us from...

As I work with clients I am continually humbled by what they have been through and the way they have coped. So often people perceive...

‘To give a thing a name, a label, a handle; to rescue it from anonymity, to pluck it out of the Place of Namelessness, in short to...