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Review of Loop Experience 2 Earplugs
Increased control over sound levels can provide a new way of responding to what you need, and Loop Earplugs can form part of a useful toolkit for managing noise sensitivity.
Making ourselves heard
Making ourselves heard. How do we respond to increasing access to information and the many platforms and tools to communicate what we think? How, when, where, and why do we choose to express our opinions, and what is the impact of our choices?
Deciding When to End Therapy
Whatever our reason for beginning therapy, how can we recognise when it’s time to work towards an ending? Some considerations on how to approach this decision, including the content and impact of sessions, the therapeutic relationship, wider support systems, and questions for self-reflection.
Playlist: Music on Hope
This playlist looks at hope as a musical theme. The piece explore hope as journeys and new beginnings, as sustenance and guidance, as changing relationships, and as the promise of unrealised potential.
Challenging behaviour in relationships
All of us experience behaviours we find challenging in others. How to understanding our responses to others can affect our ability to manage incompatibility in relationships.
One-At-A-Time Therapy
Here I share some thoughts on what One-At-A-Time Therapy (OOAT) looks like, deciding if it could fit you, how to prepare and what happen afterwards.
How long does Therapy take?
Here I share some thoughts on what time-limited therapy and open-ended therapy look like, what situations they tend to fit, and some possible benefits and challenges of each.
Socialising after lockdown
Our experiences of the pandemic will determine how we react to the lifting of recent lockdown restrictions. How re-socialising, adapting to 'a new normal', can affect how we think and feel.
How Online Counselling can work
Here I look at online counselling, with a focus on telephone and video sessions, to help you consider whether it might work for you. What are the benefits and challenges, what does it look and feel like and how does it differ from in-person therapy?
Introvert or Extrovert: what’s in a label?
The terms ‘Introvert’ and ‘Extrovert’ have become popular again in recent years. These two different personality types can be useful in helping us to understand why people can behave differently. Here I look at whether the meaning of these words has become lost in translation.
Seeing in the New Year
Whether it’s a time to reflect on the year that’s coming to an end or to focus on what happens next, the New Year often represents change in some way. Here are some thoughts on how we might approach this.
What’s an initial conversation with a therapist like?
An initial conversation, or Assessment, is a time for a therapist and client to meet to explore if they might be able to do some meaningful work together. More about this moment to ask any questions you have about the process, to experience a little of what the therapeutic relationship can feel like and to get a professional opinion on what might be useful for you.
Loneliness in Lockdown
Our contact with others can have a big effect on how we feel, and too little can leave us feeling anything from unsatisfied to abandoned. Read how being isolated can result in feelings of loneliness.
Playlist: Music on Peacefulness
This playlist takes the idea of peacefulness as its starting point. Each piece of music says something about peacefulness as calm and quiet, as an escape, as hope for the future and as a connection with a higher being or consciousness.
We all have Mental Health
We all have mental health. If mental wellbeing is a scale that balances our resilience against everything going on around us, what can we do when it begins to tip? How can we make it our second nature to look after our emotional wellbeing?
Working through a pandemic
During the past 6 months many of us have had to respond to changes to our jobs, often at short notice. With so many people affected in so many ways, how are you working through the pandemic?
The Winter Blues or something more?
As the weather starts to change many of us notice a difference in how we feel. This can often be dismissed as the ‘winter blues’, but if symptoms begin to affect your everyday life it might be time to take a closer look.
What just happened? Time to reflect
Perhaps now is one moment to take a breath and reflect. It’s not about whether an experience has been good or bad, it’s about the fact that something just happened.
Playlist: Music on Reflecting
A playlist taking the idea of reflection as its starting point, as a state of mind, as a way of making sense of things and as a way of bringing ideas or sounds together.
Are you prepared to find your therapist?
Choosing a therapist can feel like online dating; there’s a sea of information to read through, it can feel difficult to get a feel for the person behind the profile and it takes courage to reach out to someone you don’t know. Some thoughts about how to go about finding a therapist.
