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
Imagine it is 4:00 PM on a rainy Monday afternoon. A fourteen-year-old girl, let’s call her Mia, sits in a therapy room picking at her
We talk a lot about mental health these days. Possibly more than at any point in history. And yet, anxiety is rising, burnout is everywhere,
The reality is that poverty is a deeply personal issue which affects 24% of the UK. Poverty is the shame that people carry because society
