Wimbledon Counselling

29/07/2016

From my personal experience and working with clients working through trauma - it's not the objective facts that determine whether an event is traumatic, but your subjective emotional experience. Whether the trauma happened years ago or yesterday, you can heal and move on.

Trauma covers such areas as divorce, bereavement, redundancy, ill health - all the shocks and tribulations that can shake one's ordinary life to the core

25/11/2014

Learning to define our boundaries is challenging for many people because they are fluid and change with our sense of ourselves. Personal boundaries are important for our mental and emotional health because they provide the parameters for what we expect from others and life itself.

Love can’t exist without boundaries, even with your children. It’s easy to understand external boundaries as your bottom line. Think of rules and principles you live by when you say what you will or won’t do or allow. If you have difficulty saying...

25/11/2014

The Holidays, we are told, are the happiest time of the year. Crisp, cold days, flurries of snow, gathering around the fire and sitting together to enjoy a beautiful meal – these are the images of the ideal from Thanksgiving to Hannukah to Christmas to New Year.

30/09/2014

Do you feel painfully stuck in your relationship? Are you struggling to know if you should keep fighting for your relationship or walk away? This article is worth a read...

Some people hang on when there's no hope. Too many others give up too soon.

18/09/2014

Interesting article if you're interested in understanding how the 'Drama Triangle' works in relationships. However, in my work with couples we explore how you can develop a 'healthy triangle' in which one can take responsibility for their own potency and develop a capacity to show their vulnerability. If you're struggle with any of theses issues please contact me.

We were all emotionally immature at one point or another, just as we were all physically immature. The way that emotionally immature people try to get love is by playing the drama triangle. As a child, you will seek to blame others for the hurt you f...

22/07/2014

Having read this article I felt it was important to mention Place2Be who provide emotional and therapeutic services in primary and secondary schools, building children's resilience through talking, creative work and play. I spent two years working with primary school children and was deeply moved by how the children were able to explore their feelings, to express themselves and to make sense of their life experiences. All children should be given this opportunity.

Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett: As an anxious 12-year-old I confided to worry dolls more than to any adult. Cuts to mental health budgets mean children today are still suffering the same fate

07/07/2014

It's important to communicate with openness and with honesty. If you are blamed, discuss with your partner how you feel about being blamed, rather than point your finger back at them and blame them for blaming you!

There are many nice things we want, but are somehow a little scared of getting, because they are bound up with risks and subtle inner complications we don’t quite have a handle on: we may – at some deep level – be scared of succeeding at our career, of making money, of going out to parties, of havin…

25/06/2014

If you are struggling with anxiety therapy can help you see things differently.

Modern life seems to feature more anxiety as people struggle with fear of exclusion

04/06/2014

This is an issue that comes up frequently with my clients and can cause a huge amount of pressure and stress. If you struggle with saying NO this article could be of help.

There is no reason why you have to say “yes” to everything and everyone. By agreeing to do things that you don’t want to shows that you are a people pleas

29/05/2014

I have worked with many clients who have struggled with this issue and it seems that the problem is still around the stigma surrounding mental health. Depending on the atmosphere and environment you work in, disclosing depression (or bipolar disorder, or any kind of mental illness) can feel like asking for trouble, but the flip side is that you can then get the support and help you need.

Emirates Airlines has withdrawn their offer of employment for a Briton after learning she had depression. It makes Radhika Sanghani wonder who would ever declare a mental illness in the workplace

13/05/2014

If you’re struggling with anxiety, you’re absolutely not alone.
Knowing how others manage their anxiety can be helpful. Below are lessons individuals have learned over the years.

Find out how to get involved with Mental Health Awareness Week 2014.

14/04/2014

Although men seem to suffer from depression just as often as women, it seems that they are less likely to ask for help. From my experience once men make the decision to talk about what's going on they really benefit from counselling. If you are worried about a man in your life or you are a guy struggling with depression and would like to talk to someone please get in touch.

Once upon a time, England's third richest man shocked the world by admitting he was suffering from depression. "About eight years ago I hit the buffers – it came totally out of the blue. One day, I woke up and couldn't get out of bed. I thought, OK, I'll be better tomorrow, but the next day was even...