Do not suffer in silence if you are feeling anxious. Anxiety can be a really normal response to something challenging – we’ve all been there. Often, it’s just a sign that you’re standing on the edge of your comfort zone and about to do something really brave. Sometimes though, it can be more than that. […]
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My letter to Therapy Today on the validity of psychotherapeutic interventions, which was published in the May 2015 edition, outside the prism of ‘evidence base’ and randomised control trials (RCTs) in public sector commissioning. This followed an article by the chair of BACP in the March edition of the journal (page 46) in which Andrew Reeves
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My interview with Paul Magrie, transpersonal psychotherapist and member of management committee of the CCPE in West London. In the interview Paul discusses his take on integrative psychotherapy and his involvement with CCPE from the 1990s. CCPE recently celebrated 30 years as a transpersonal training institute and clinical services provider. In the interview Paul refers
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My latest article on relationship issues has been published on the Counselling Directory website. The article addresses the difficulties that present when one person becomes overly parental in the relationship and what needs to happen when sex stops occurring in the union. To read the article please click here.
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Are you worried about feeling anxious? Do you withdraw from meeting up and mixing with your family and friends? Do you avoid social situations in order to not have feelings of worry and dread? Do you find it difficult to go to work and do you take time off sick? These actions can make you
Self-help management regime for Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD) Read More »
In this interview Dr Patrick Carnes chats to Joe Polish, founder of the Genius Network about sex addiction, neuroscience and the most effective treatment for addictive behaviours. I have listened to this interview, usually as an mp3 file on my phone, many times and always seem to learn something new each time I listen to
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I was reading about the military experiences of Robin Horsfall, a former SAS sniper, in a newspaper article yesterday in which he recounted his involvement in the storming of the Iranian embassy on May 5 1980. That particular event predated my arrival to London but I can still recall the dramatic live TV pictures at the
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My interview with Allan Pimentel, jazz musician and psychotherapist for over 25 years. Allan is a member of the management committee of CCPE, the largest transpersonal training institute in the UK. In the interview Allan chats about the history of CCPE, which recently celebrated 30 years of being a training institute, how he became a therapist
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I read Dr Marie Adam’s article on ‘Therapists are human too’ with interest (Therapy Today, November, 2014). The article starts by asking whether counsellors in training pitch up for their therapy sessions without really ‘doing the work’. I’ve had the same thought: how many counsellors in training ‘do the work’ even on their courses? Do
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In this podcast I had a fascinating chat with Tommy Hanchen, about his article Quantum Leaps in the Evolution of Therapeutic Hypnosis in which he argues that contemporary psychotherapy owes a great debt of gratitude to the history of hypnosis. In the interview we discuss the work of Franz Mesmer, James Braid and Ernest Rossi as well
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