When the final whistle goes at the Stadium of Light, the place empties quicker than you’d think. Within a few minutes the rows around me
It often comes out of nowhere. Someone is sitting across from me, talking about something else entirely, and they stop mid-sentence. They’ve just realised that
When I was in the Royal Navy, I served on HMS Boxer, and one of the best runs ashore I had then was when we
Before I trained as a counsellor I had a lot of jobs. Royal Navy at seventeen. Fitting bathrooms. Maintenance for a property company. Driving lorries
A client came back from two weeks away recently and spent the first part of our session describing where he had been. What he kept
A few nights ago I was sat scrolling through old TikToks. Trips we’d taken, days out, clips of my boy when he was small. Archie’s
We keep treating social media as if it were a substance, she said. A toxin to be prohibited, like a drug. But it is not
I watched a child the other day in a café, maybe seven or eight years old, sitting motionless with an iPad inches from his face.
In 1973, a psychologist named David Rosenhan did something extraordinary. He and seven other perfectly healthy people walked into psychiatric hospitals across America complaining of
She sat across from me in that first session, confident in her self-assessment. “I’ve been reading about ADHD,” she said, “and I’m pretty sure that’s
