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Today is World Mental Health Awareness day. The theme this year is workplace mental health. I work with many people where workplace...

Living with pain is tough. If the only time you don't feel the pain is when you're asleep you never get a break. I had a car accident...

A bit delayed but I'm going to reflect on the EMDR conference that was in York on 15th and 16th March. I was in two minds whether to give...

I started the year with a chest infection, I struggled to sleep at night, I couldn't leave the house without struggling to breathe, I...

Having just posted my last blog I came across this on LinkedIn....I don't think I need to say anymore and just let you view...

It's been a while...I've been busy working, relaxing and being poorly in equal measures since my last post, and so my blog fell to the...

I have a guest writer on the blog this week...Cheryl Conklin from https://wellnesscentral.info/ Cheryl considers a variety of ways to...

Today is World Mental Health day. The theme for this year is 'Mental health is a universal human right'. The World Federation for Mental...

I have such a rewarding and varied job. I have often written about the wins clients have told me about. Today I am really pleased to...

A client once said to me that doing EMDR was like a mist lifting. The mist was the belief that she was to blame for the traumas she had...

Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing therapy is not easy. I have some clients who are struggling at the moment. Trauma is like a...

This year the focus of mental health awareness week is anxiety. I see a lot of people who struggle with anxiety. Anxiety takes many...

I always intended to write a blog to say a fond farewell to the York Clinic but life took over. I've been at my new base for 3 months now...

I am always so humbled to receive a thank you gift from a client. I understand that their life has (hopefully) changed for the better and...

I sometimes get asked 'when are we going to start the actual therapy?'. It is really important that before we embark on your trauma...

I'm writing this blog on holiday. Not because I can't switch off from work quite the opposite...but because I've switched off I actually...

As men's mental health week draws to a close I saw this image. I think it speaks for itself so end of blog...

Therapy can feel like an uphill struggle, or rather a mountain to climb. Like a real mountain, in therapy there are harder parts and...

In my last blog I commented on how busy I was on a work project. This meant some long days and evenings which isn't something I normally...

I’ve been a bit quiet on the blog front; the last month has been mega busy with personal and work commitments, a period of sickness that...