Are you pondering creating space in your life for therapy, but you don't seem to find time? Maybe you had challenging experiences in a therapist’s room in the past. What if I told you that healing and self-discovery could happen right where you are, in the comfort of your own home? Welcome to the world of online counselling or psychotherapy: a gentle, accessible, and powerful way to nurture your mind and soul. Online therapy allows you to access specialist modalities that mig

The Wisdom of a Chinese Proverb There’s an old Chinese proverb that tells the story of a farmer. One day, his horse runs away. The neighbours say, “How terrible!” The farmer replies, “Good luck, bad luck, who knows?” A week later, the horse returns, bringing two wild horses with it. The neighbours cheer, “How wonderful!” The farmer says again, “Good luck, bad luck, who knows?” Soon after, the farmer’s son tries to ride one of the wild horses, falls, and breaks his leg. The ne

EFT Tapping is a tool that can help clients in an easy way and doesn't replace talking therapy. It complements it.

Trauma is a part of life. The word “trauma” comes from the Greek language, meaning “wound”. We all carry wounds from our upbringing, our inherited patterns, and the difficulties that society brings. You may know exactly what hurts, or you may simply feel overwhelmed without understanding why. Trauma can develop from a one‑off event or an accumulation of emotional hurts that your nervous system interpreted. Depending on that interpretation, you may have experienced different l

Do counsellors have to report child sexual abuse disclosed by an adult client? A trauma-informed guide to confidentiality, safeguarding, and ethical practice.

Creative supervision brings supervision alive. It helps therapists step out of the cognitive frame and into a more embodied, intuitive, and relational way of understanding their clients and themselves. When we introduce movement, imagery, symbolism, and play into group supervision, we open new pathways for insight and deepen the supervisee’s capacity to hold their clinical work. Here are eight creative supervision tools that can enrich group process, expand perspective, and s

EFT Tapping for Trauma and emotional healing has become increasingly popular in recent years, and for good reason. It is gentle, effective, and surprisingly accessible. Many people learn tapping from videos or short trainings and find it helpful for everyday stress, emotional overwhelm, or simple phobias. But when it comes to deep‑seated trauma, especially trauma that is developmental, attachment‑based, intergenerational, or spiritual in nature, the picture changes. The work

AI seems to be taking over our world at an incredible speed. It writes, analyses, predicts, and chats. It appears in news headlines, workplace discussions, and even in the therapy room: sometimes directly, sometimes quietly in the background. Understandably, many counsellors and psychotherapists are asking: What is AI doing in the mental health world? And do I need to worry about my future as a therapist? These questions are landing in supervision more often, and they carry a

Embodied supervision invites us to include the body as an active participant in the supervisory relationship. For many counsellors and psychotherapists, this is both familiar and surprisingly new: we work with clients’ embodied experience every day, yet our own sensations, tensions, impulses, and shifts of breath can remain quietly in the background when we step into the role of supervisee or supervisor. This approach rests on a simple but profound premise: the body often kno

Some people hum without even noticing. In the car. In the kitchen. While thinking. While soothing themselves after a long day. I’m not talking about humming as a formal therapeutic technique. I’m talking about the usual hum of your favourite song, or a catchy one that you can't get out of your mind. Humming is available to all of us, it is fun, and a way to point to something much deeper and more universal: our innate need for rhythm and regulation . Long before we had langu

When we experience trauma (especially childhood trauma) it often leaves us with more than just difficult memories. It can leave us feeling disconnected, fragmented, and as if we don't quite "belong" in our own lives. Traditional talking therapy is a wonderful starting point, but because trauma is stored in the nervous system and in the body, deep resolution often requires an integrative approach. Here are five of the best therapy options that I've found for processing past tr

Tribute to Gary Craig in gratitude for his generous legacy to the world. EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) have revolutionised many therapy rooms. There is a growing number of research about its efficacy, including a mention by the National Institute for Health Care Excellence in the UK. Thank you, Gary.

Some therapeutic insights arrive through words. Others arrive through movement, symbols, and a sudden, "felt sense" of truth. The Hopscotch Tool was born from that second place. Inspired by Chloe Myers’ coaching model and shaped through years of working with clients who think deeply and feel intensely, this tool is for those who arrive at therapy with questions that cannot be answered by the mind alone. This is not a tool to analyse life from a distance. It is a tool to step

When I talk about creative self-supervision , I am not inviting you to be the Super-therapist who's always on top of things, dedicating an extra hour of reflection for every client they see in a week. I'm simply inviting you to discover a few creative tools for self-supervision that can "spice up" your work; make you feel excited about self-reflection and supervision; and might help you play instead of work . Self-supervision is not meant to feel like homework. It doesn't nee

Anger is a natural human emotion, and learning how to contain anger can be very helpful . It indicates to us that our boundaries have been crossed, be it because something feels unjust, others have trespassed our limits, or we’re carrying more than we can hold and we are not respecting our own boundaries . Yet, when anger takes over, when it becomes rage, it can feel frightening, for ourselves and for those around us. This is why understanding and working with anger, rathe

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