The latest edition of my podcast series deals with how to get good therapy and how to avoid bad therapy. In the interview I chat with Graham Johnston and Matt Wotton, authors of the recently published book A Straight Talking Introduction to Therapy (published by PCCS Books). Click on the embedded link below to watch/listen. […]
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I was quoted in an article that appeared in the Independent (attached, by clicking on the image) about grief, and specifically the death of a work colleague. This story followed the news that Stephen Colbert, the Late Show host on CBS in the USA, was mourning the loss during a show of his long-time colleague
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Why are there so many approaches and new theories that proliferate in the world of counselling and psychotherapy? There are over 500 different types of psychotherapy in existence. Yes, that’s 500, not 5, or even 50. In addition, when you look at the adverts for continuing professional development (cpd) courses there is a whole host
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I was quoted in the news section (see attached) in the current edition of The New Psychotherapist, UKCP’s members magazine. The magazine is published three times a year, and aims to spotlight the benefits of psychotherapy and how it can transform lives by unlocking potential. The stated aim of the magazine is to show psychotherapy
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Today I chatted with counsellor Tricia Ibe, about the topic of affairs and specifically about being the other woman in an affair (with a married man) who is single, which can be the other side of infidelity as it tends to have less focus, and perhaps much less sympathy than the betrayed wife. Her article
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Have you been watching Netflix’s new game show adaptation of the hit Korean dystopian drama? Apparently it has been breaking all records in every Netflix region. I am usually someone who avoids such annoying publicity seeking self obsessed contestants on television screens but this one caught my attention. Yes, the irritating repeated exclaims of “oh
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Now that we have passed Black Friday, we are increasingly being bombarded by shopping adverts about even more special shopping windows, including for Christmas. This period is when retailers make a sizable proportion of their yearly profits and there are numerous subconscious consumer decision-making processes that companies seek to exploit when we are shopping. In
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If you have suffered a delirious episode you may have a lot of unanswered questions concerning what exactly happened, how it happened and whether it could happen again. Hopefully your doctor or psychiatrist will have helped with providing some of the detail and clarity on these questions. But there may be lingering concerns about your vulnerability
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Sometimes psychotherapy can be an easy target in wider society, and even in medical circles, when people believe we can be far too introspective and self-indulgent about sharing with others about what happened to us in our earlier life. Critics of psychotherapy claim that people like Prince Harry, for example, should get over their past
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In this post you will learn more about how gambling addiction is defined, how and why it manifests and the most effective treatment models. Gambling addiction can also be called problem gambling, compulsive gambling or gambling disorder. What is problem gambling? Problem gamblers often refer to their zone of emotional comfort, where nothing else seems
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