by Rachel | May 23, 2024 | Happiness, Anxiety, Counselling and therapy, Self-compassion
Happiness is weird. As an opening gambit this maybe falls short in profundity, but bear with me. As a therapist I do a lot of work with ‘uncomfortable’ emotions (the whole thing about there being no ‘bad’ emotions probably merits a separate blog in itself). So...
by Rachel | Apr 16, 2024 | Counselling and therapy, Anxiety
The other day disaster struck in our garden when the nest box some blue tits have made their home in our fell off the wall. We put it back (a little more securely this time!), but without high hopes, however were surprised to see them return soon after, getting on...
by Rachel | Jul 31, 2023 | Counselling and therapy
As therapists, we are taught the vital importance of empathy very early on, because feeling that your therapist is empathic is one of the ‘common factors’ which helps to create positive change, whatever type of therapy is being practiced. Taking a scroll on...
by Rachel | Mar 22, 2023 | Counselling and therapy
Recently I’ve been immersing myself in the world of nervous system regulation and survival stress (if you’re interested in digging into this further too Irene Lyon has a lot of high-quality free resources which are well worth a look ). At some point during this...
by Rachel | Nov 15, 2022 | Counselling and therapy, lgbtq+, Self-compassion, sporadic blogs exploring therapy through queer popular culture
The concept of self-care and self-soothing is one that I explore a lot in therapy sessions. A hat tip to the fact that although therapy can be powerful, it is a mere 50 mins out of 10080 in a week.Many people believe that self-care and self-soothing are something they...
by Rachel | Mar 24, 2022 | Counselling and therapy, Self-compassion
Does the voice in your head speak to you like a supportive coach or a mean bully who is never satisfied? If it’s the latter, is there anything you can do about it? In psychotherapy we often refer to this negative internal voice as the ‘inner critic’. Identifying this...
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