Counselling Articles
Many talk therapies help by looking at your past experiences, and how you personally think and feel. But systemic therapy takes a very different approach to helping your feel better about yourself and your life. What is systemic therapy? Systemic psychotherapy believes we are interconnected to those around us. So any problems we face are...
by Andrea Blundell “Kindness is a gift everyone can afford”. “Love and kindness are never wasted”. We hear kindness quotes so often, we might not take them seriously. But have we underrated the power of kindness? Psychology seems to think so. A growing body of research now recognises a connection between kindness and mental health....
by Andrea Blundell Coronavirus presents all new challenges to feeling connected. Even with lockdown lifting, we can’t see loved ones if they are vulnerable or elderly, or live in a country we now can’t get to. Or perhaps we are single, and our friends with children are choosing their ‘social bubbles’ with other families. We...
Is your intimate life a mess? Or do you have a sexual problem you’ve been keeping to yourself for so long, that it’s directly affecting your ability to feel good about life and yourself? Psychosexual therapy is for you. What is ‘psychosexual therapy’? Put aside any worries from sensationalist stories you have seen in the...
Been on edge of late? Snapping at others without meaning too, and just feeling all around frustrated? What can you do when grumpiness has you in its hold? And when is irritability a sign of something more serious? What causes irritability? We can all be grumpy if we are tired, or hungry. And medical issues,...
by Andrea Blundell There are government guidelines for the physically vulnerable during the pandemic we find ourselves in. But what about the emotionally vulnerable? Emotionally unstable personality disorder can mean you are struggling far more with the lockdown lifestyle than those around you. Do you have emotionally unstable personality disorder? Emotionally unstable personality disorder is...
by Andrea Blundell Read advice that tells you that if you feel low, just ‘reach out’? But attempts you have made (if any) have gone poorly and left you feeling bad? Reaching out is a skill that not all of us learned as a child or were encouraged to do. On a good note, skills...
by Andrea Blundell Had grand plans for all you’d get done during lockdown? Only to find yourself underachieving and acting far from your typical self? Social isolation is at work on your mental health and the way your brain functions. Social isolation and your brain There actually isn’t a body of research on the sort...
Relatives dying surrounded only by masked doctors. Funerals with only a few family members present, or watched from the safety of cars. Shivas streamed over the internet. How can we navigate the grieving process in a pandemic world of social isolation and lockdown rules? When we can’t be with our loved ones as they go...
At first the pandemic had you anxious. But now you have the ‘blahs’. What can you do if lockdown life means every day starts with, “I am bored”? What is boredom? The way one person feels when saying “I’m bored” might be entirely different from what another person feels when they say the same thing....
