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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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Our Negative Thoughts Makes Us Anxious

Have you ever paid attention to the narrative you tell yourself? I’m too fat;  I’m not good at relationships;  No one really likes me;  I’m rubbish at…;   I’m boring;  I’ve got to be the best;  Everyone is cleaver than I;  etc. etc. Some of these things may be true but if we go around telling ourselves them constantly and also […]

May 9, 2019 in Anger, Anxiety, Counselling, Counselling online, counselling via skype, couples counselling, Depression, Domestic violence, english counsellors for ex-pats, ex-pat counselling, Online Counselling, relationship counselling, Relationships, Skype Counselling, Skype Therapy, Stress by

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Spring Cleaning For the Mind

The return to sunshine  and lighter, longer days is usually an uplifting thing.  We feel more hopeful, more alive than those dark days of winter.  We want to renew and refresh our homes and sometimes our lives.  However for some of us we don’t feel that renewed energy – we just feel worse that we […]

April 29, 2019 in Anger, Anxiety, Counselling, Counselling online, counselling via skype, couples counselling, Depression, Domestic violence, english counsellors for ex-pats, Face to Face Counselling in Haywards Heath, relationship counselling, Relationships, Skype Counselling 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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Red Nose Day 2019

Red Nose Day is about bringing people together to have fun, raise money and change the lives of kids who need our help the most.   Sounds, and is, a great idea.  Childhood should be the time of our lives when we are surrounded by love, empowerment and balance but in many families that is not […]

March 15, 2019 in CBT, children, Counselling, counselling via skype, couples counselling, Domestic violence, Online Counselling, relationship counselling, Relationships, Sexual abuse, Skype Therapy, Stress by

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ARE YOU ANGRY AND IF SO ARE YOU SMOULDERING OR EXPLOSIVE?

Anger is a basic emotion that we are born with.  It can be both a good and a bad thing.  It can be indiscriminate fireworks or a cancerous bundle of resentment.  Anger in its pure form can be something that can empower us to do something and make changes.  However, depending on how much we […]

January 28, 2019 in Anger, CBT, Counselling, Counselling online, counselling via skype, Domestic violence, english counsellors for ex-pats, Face to Face Counselling in Haywards Heath, relationship counselling, Skype Counselling, Skype Therapy by

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Violence Against Women

This isn’t a new issue and sadly I don’t think by having a Day to highlight it, it will be the last.  Perpetrators of violence against women probably won’t even be aware that we are coming for them.  As a counsellor I have the greatest respect for a past abuser who realises it is wrong […]

November 26, 2018 in Addiction, Anger, Counselling, Counselling online, Domestic violence, english counsellors for ex-pats, ex-pat counselling, Face to Face Counselling in Haywards Heath, relationship counselling, Relationships, Sexual abuse, Skype Counselling, Skype Therapy, Uncategorized by

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WORLD BOOK DAY 2018 – Helping You to Help Yourself Recommendations

I believe that Counselling is about empowering people and as it’s World Book Day I would like to help that process by make the following reading recommendations.  This isn’t an exhaustive list as I am continually learning and updating from such wonderful authors as these.  These book recommendations are light, often funny reads which are also most […]

March 1, 2018 in Addiction, Anger, Borderline Personality Disorder, CBT, Counselling, Counselling online, counselling via skype, couples counselling, Depression, Domestic violence, english counsellors for ex-pats, ex-pat counselling, expatriot counselling, Face to Face Counselling in Haywards Heath, Online Counselling, Psychotherapy, relationship counselling, Relationships, Skype Counselling, Skype Therapy by

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Time to Talk Day

Wow.  We now have a special day to make “#time to talk”.    But as one of the complaints I hear from clients is “I find it difficult to talk” or “he/she won’t talk to me” if we now let ourselves off the hook by providing a special day for letting others know how we feel – […]

February 1, 2018 in Addiction, Anger, Borderline Personality Disorder, CBT, Counselling, Counselling online, couples counselling, Depression, Domestic violence, english counsellors for ex-pats, ex-pat counselling, Face to Face Counselling in Haywards Heath, Online Counselling, Psychotherapy, Skype Counselling, Skype Therapy by

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