December 2024 What comes first: thoughts or feelings and why is it important?
2024 December MONTHLY BLOG FOURTEEN What comes first: thoughts or feelings and why is it important? Published 19 December 2016. Written by Chris Worfolk. The author of this month’s subject was testing a piece of software designed to help with social anxiety. One of the activities it has clients do is to list the […]
November 2024 Top 10 Effective Communication Techniques for couples and married couples
Communication Between Couples, Good communication skills are the keys to any successful relationship because relationships are emotional and rely on interpersonal verbal and nonverbal exchanges between the two people involved. Most marriages start out with the idea of success not realizing the number one cause of divorce is bad communication. In cases of parenting and […]
This article discusses how to support someone with depression. It focuses on strategies you can use to offer support and encourage your loved one to seek treatment for their condition. In the UK, 1 in 6 people report experiencing a common mental health problem (like anxiety and depression) in any given week in England1. At the end of […]
September 2024 Why is the relationship between Counsellor and Client vital for successful therapy
2024 September MONTHLY BLOG ELEVEN Why is the relationship between Counsellor and Client vital for successful therapy? Mainly due to pressures of time I have here reproduced an article by Joshua Miles (Accredited Psychodynamic Psychotherapist) titled Why the therapeutic relationship matters? published on 29-06-2015 in the Counselling Directory. I cannot improve on it except to […]
3 MAIN SCHOOLS OF THERAPY I believe other therapists might be able to explain the 3 main branches of therapy better than I can but I'll give it a go for the clients who might come across these blogs. Although there are broadly speaking three main schools within therapy, in practice most clients will have […]
Relationships heal In the July 2024 Blog, I will quote extensively from my favourite book ‘A General Theory of Love’ in which the subject of our front-line doctors is discussed. The authors discuss the innovations that brought an unparalleled ability to cure: x-rays, anti-biotics, vaccines, anaesthesia etc. etc. However, they note that the reasoning part […]