Walk & Talk Therapy – Is It For You?
My aim is to provide a therapeutic space that: feels safe, comfortable, and as confidential as possible to enable you to talk freely about those concerns you wish to address. Both my practice spaces in Manchester and Blackburn are comfortably furnished and decorated to create a calm, welcoming environment. Neither space is overlooked by […]
Tinsel, Turkey, the John Lewis Advert, and Anxiety
PERFECTION? The John Lewis advert aired mid-November and the high street stores were suddenly full of Christmas displays and the sounds of Christmas music. The countdown clock to Christmas is beginning to tick. For some this is exciting, for others it is the opposite. Christmas, like lots of other events in the year, holds a […]
Mental Health Awareness Week 9 – 13 May 2022 – Loneliness: Reaching Out or Reaching In to/for Help
Mental Health Awareness Week Every year as a nation we have a focus on Mental Health Awareness – this year’s theme is loneliness. There is a great deal of resource and help out there, some of it more accessible to individuals than others and one of the barriers to accessing help may be a sense […]
Through person-centred counselling; be heard, be accepted, be yourself.
Before being accepted onto my counselling degree, I had one of the toughest, emotional interviews of my life. I cannot remember the questions, but the nature of them meant I had to share and be honest about my life experiences. I do remember the emotion I felt and my fear of being rejected. Thankfully I […]
A Survival Guide to Burnout
I do not really know when the sleepless nights began, and I teetered on the edge of a cliff. Was it when my children were nearing the end of high school or college and finding their own feet? Was it the continual changes at work? Was it when the motorway traffic slowed to 50 miles […]
