New Experiences: The Pros and Cons

I think it’s a vital part of any practicing counsellor or therapist to be involved in ongoing personal development, both in a professional sense – through training programs and workshops, peer groups and conference attendance – and also through developing an awareness of our own responses and processes in the real world. Over the last [...]

Mind and Body: Revisited

An interesting article (on the BBC website as usual – apologies that my daily reading habits might strike some as boringly narrow) again makes links between mind and body disorders, suggesting that physcal conditions like lung cancer ought to be recognised as having a psychological component; an addiction to smoking can lead to lung cancer, [...]

What Do You Say When Words Fail?

This weekend I’m planning on visiting a friend of mine, someone I’ve never actually met in person before, but who I’ve been talking to for the last three years. We’ve been in constant contact in that time, despite him spending twelve months working abroad in a dream job, and exchanged letters, postcards, emails and telephone [...]