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ARE WE TOO PRESCRIPTIVE IN THE SERVICES WE PROVIDE?

In some areas it would seem so.  In general business it would not make sense to produce a product or service that we think is great but the customers don’t.  Most successful businesses would do lots of market research to see what their proposed customer base wanted before investing resources.  So why then does it […]

July 21, 2022 in AA, Addiction, Al-Anon, Anger, Anxiety, Borderline Personality Disorder, CBT, Counselling, Counselling online, counselling via skype, couples counselling, Depression, Domestic violence, Face to Face Counselling in Haywards Heath, Online Counselling, Panic Attacks, Psychotherapy, relationship counselling, Relationships, Skype Counselling, Skype Therapy, Stress, Uncategorized by

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DO YOU HAVE SOMEONE CLOSE WHO STRUGGLES WITH ADDICTION?

One of the hardest thing in the World is to watch (The Concerned) someone (The Addicted) destroy themselves – little by little.  The method of their destruction is in fact not so important as the fact that they are hurting so much inside (even if they don’t actually realise it) that they do so.  Therefore, […]

April 15, 2019 in AA, Addiction, Al-Anon, Anger, Anxiety, CA, Counselling, Counselling online, couples counselling, english counsellors for ex-pats, ex-pat counselling, Face to Face Counselling in Haywards Heath, NA, Online Counselling, Psychotherapy, REBT, relationship counselling, Relationships, Skype Counselling, Skype Therapy, Stress by

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ARE YOU HUNG OVER TODAY – AGAIN?

Feeling fragile today? Had a bit too much of a ‘Great’ weekend?  What made it ‘Great’?  Can you remember it even? If you find yourself feeling a little ‘rough’ on rare occasions, then I get it.   Sometimes we just need to blow off a little steam and although it might not be very PC for […]

April 8, 2019 in Addiction, Anxiety, Counselling, Counselling online, counselling via skype, couples counselling, Depression, Online Counselling, Skype Counselling, Skype Therapy, Stress by

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Who Are You?

Usually we just accept that things are ‘just the way they are’ and in particular ‘I am just the way I am’.  But usually we haven’t given much thought to this particular way of being – it is just how it is.  Until……..things start to go wrong, really wrong and we can’t seem to make […]

April 1, 2019 in Addiction, Anger, Anxiety, Borderline Personality Disorder, Counselling, couples counselling, Depression, Domestic violence, Face to Face Counselling in Haywards Heath, Online Counselling, Panic Attacks, Psychotherapy, relationship counselling, Stress by

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Mother’s Day – A day for celebrating or a day for regrets?

Most of us instantly see Mothers Day as a day for celebrating and thanking our mums for looking after us and doing the best they could for us during our lives.  However by definition the noun Mother is “a woman in relation to a child or children to whom she has given birth” and for […]

March 27, 2019 in Addiction, Anger, Counselling, Counselling online, counselling via skype, Depression, Domestic violence, Mothers Day, Psychotherapy, Relationships, Sexual abuse, Uncategorized by

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Quit smoking but avoid the pot holes!

Everywhere we turn we are faced with signs asking us to Quit Smoking.  There is a national campaign  to provide smokers with all the evidence to persuade them that smoking is bad for their health and to cease in their own best interests and we have  large scale offerings of how to do that.  We […]

March 13, 2019 in Addiction, Anger, Counselling, Depression, News, Psychotherapy, Relationships by

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UNIVERSITY MENTAL HEALTH DAY

We all find big decisions concerning (they wouldn’t be big decisions if they weren’t) and gearing up as a young adult to get the best possible start to the rest of our lives sounds a pretty responsible thing to do.  However, when the pressure we, and others, put on ourselves to ‘get it right first […]

March 7, 2019 in Addiction, Anxiety, Counselling, Counselling online, counselling via skype, Skype Counselling, Skype Therapy, Stress by

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DO YOU USE FOOD AS A COPING MECHANISM?

There are a number of reasons why we use food as a coping mechanism: To fit in and feel accepted An subconscious plea for others to see our internal pain without speaking the words An subconscious plan for us to be invisible so that we won’t be ‘seen’ and the hurt prolonged To feel we […]

February 25, 2019 in Addiction, Depression, Uncategorized by

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Counselling – No Just Talking in Haywards Heath or Online!

I am still surprised how by just talking about a worry can make the World a nicer place for us to be.  It also never ceases to frustrate me how we are still are so backward about coming forward if we have some emotional sadness that we haven’t overcome. If we have a physical ailment […]

February 13, 2019 in Addiction, Anger, Counselling, Depression, Psychotherapy, Relationships, Uncategorized by

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A Star Is Born 2018 – A story of Love, Loss and Addiction

I first saw this movie when it came out in 1976. At that time it was sad but I hadn’t “lost” then so like a lot of what we see and hear it didn’t resonate. This version depicts a great love and a family torn apart by addiction and this certainly resonated as I know […]

December 2, 2018 in Addiction, Counselling, counselling via skype, Face to Face Counselling in Haywards Heath, Relationships by

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