Are you struggling to cope with a difficult experience? If your ability to cope is impaired, there are ways to make sense and regain control. Click to read more about how therapy can help.

PTSD cases look to grow by 12% over the next few years. The condition can have severe and devastating effects for the 11,000 serving military personnel who are currently diagnosed. I explore PTSD in this blog, click to read more,

Practicing psychotherapy means that I am in a very privileged position of having a front line seat, for the want of a better expression, into someones personal life, that is sometimes so personal I may be the only one with whom it has been shared.

This blog looks at the elements that are affected in those who suffer with depression and how psychotherapy can help.

How often do you feel unhappy; once a month, once a week or daily? Do you think that this is the life you have been given to live or there is little point in trying to make it different because something will always come and make things horrible again?

This blog is to acknowledge that for some, the whole of December will be hard. If this is you, I want to give you some ideas that may make it more manageable.

Research suggests (a study carried out by Psychologists at Harvard University) that the benefit of being able to live in the here-and-now is happiness.There you go, you now know the secret to happiness; right?

Stephen Karpman (1968) designed a model to explain three dynamics of social interactions; it is from these three roles that games are played within relationships.

I’m always really careful when giving advice about domestic abuse, as I recognise that fear comes in all shapes and sizes, no one person’s fear is the same as the next and for me to pre-empt the fear when making suggestions in the form of a blog, when not face-to-face with the individual, may come across as though I am discounting its existence.

Do you feel un-nerved or unsettled unless you are making other people happy? I don’t mean by prancing around in a funny outfit and being the amusement for all to enjoy; I’m thinking more about doing things for people, being there for them no-matter-what – being good old reliable you? Is this where you find your happiness?

It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away.

According to Eric Berne, founder of TA, during our childhood, through our experiences of the world, parents and ourselves, we make decisions that form our script.