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New Year’s Resolutions: 10 Ways to Recommit
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Surviving the Holidays with Grace: 3 Strategies to Disarm Your Emotional Triggers
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Do You Have Post-Traumatic Stress?
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Feeling Stuck? Fight Your Resistance Dragon
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Feeling Lonely? You’re Not the Only One
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How to Catch Depression Early On
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4 Steps to Rewire Your Brain and Feel Happier
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Rewire Your Brain and Feel Happier: 3 Steps for Letting Go of Negative Thoughts
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Can’t Move Forward? Try This When You’re Stuck Feeling Meh

Guilt: Self Forgiveness
Why Guilt Lingers and What to Do About It: Self-Forgiveness Prime Women Magazine, Published April 15, 2017

Guilt: Overactive Guilt
4 Reasons Why We Feel Guilty and How to Stop Those Guilt Feelings

Stuck Creatively? Externalise your Resistance
Creatively Stuck? Externalise your Resistance Open For Ideas Published 11 May 2017

What is Skype Therapy and Does it Actually Work?
Skype therapy just means that the client and therapist connect via the online communication app, Skype. Skype accounts are free and easy to use. Sign up takes about five minutes. Communication requires a webcam and stable Internet connection. Though the client and therapist are not in the same room, they can see and hear […]

YOUR INNER CRITIC
In Western societies, confidence is valued. High self-esteem is considered a personal strength. In order to build confidence levels, we tell our children they are special.

SHAME
The world’s most sensible person and the biggest idiot both stay within us. The worst part is, you can’t even tell who is who. -Chetan Bhagat

GUILT
To err is human; to admit it, superhuman. – Doug Larson

STRESS
The problem is that stress is the result of caring about something; it is human and it is inevitable. – Donald Meichenbaum

ANXIETY
I am a person who feels guilty for crimes I have not committed.. The police search the train station for a criminal at large* and I cover my face with a newspaper, wondering if maybe I did it in my sleep. The last thing I stole was an eight-track tape, but to this day I’m […]

CLINICAL DEPRESSION
To illustrate how horrible it was .. I would rather be in jail in a wheelchair with a body that doesn’t work than experience a severe episode of depression. -Rob Delaney

The Science Behind Guilt and Shame
Though guilt and shame are similar and often used interchangeably, recent neuroscience research suggests that they are very different emotional processes. They both underpin self-correction but they are made up of different brain chemistry, are based on different beliefs, and motivate different reactions (1). Guilt arises when we think that we have done damage […]

Steps You Can Take Now to Diffuse Your Inner Critics
Our inner critics can be erosive, exhausting, and even damaging to us. But they can be very effective at motivating us too. (Read more about this here). The following post will provide suggestions on how to add a more compassionate and constructive voice to your mix of inner critical voices. Visualise your inner critic. […]
Steps that You Can Take Now to Alleviate Guilt
Guilt feelings are common, healthy, and useful in short durations. However, when guilt lingers passed its usefulness, it can cause emotional distress and lead to more serious psychological issues. These steps suggest ways to effectively repair relationships when it is possible and ways to let go of useless and destructive guilt when it is not. […]

Steps You Can Take Now to Get Better at Stress
Because stress is an inevitable part of life, these steps help us to live with it better. Click the link to access a worksheet that you can use with the following steps: Get Better at Stress Worksheet. Name it to Tame it. Stress is an umbrella term (both broad and vague). Lack of clarity […]

FEELING DOWN BUT NOT CLINICALLY DEPRESSED
I worked my way through graduate school as a waiter. Before I earned a Chartership and could earn money working with clients, I worked 16 hours most days for about five years. This included taking classes, training, seeing clients, and doing research, then waiting tables nights and weekends. Sometimes I would work two 8-hour restaurant […]

The Science Behind Stress
Stress is the way that our mind and body react to demands or threats. Whereas anxiety is worry about what might happen in the future, stress is the response to what is happening now. Why We Experience Stress Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio has been studying emotions for over 30 years. Damasio suggests that all […]
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (and what I do differently)
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) provides the basic structure for my practice. One of the best things about CBT is that it is unashamedly thieving. CBT allows its practitioners to use what works for clients from other theories and therapy models. So I draw skills, techniques, and concepts from CBT, Compassion-Focused Therapy, Affective Neuroscience, and Transactional […]

Steps You Can Take Now to Alleviate Depression
First, make sure that there is not a physical reason for your depression. Depression can be a side-effect of any number of physical sources: nutritional deficiencies, bacterial imbalances in your gut, hypothyroidism or hyperthyroidism, fibromyalgia, hormonal disorders, food allergies, infections, and medications. Get a thorough checkup from your doctor. Pay attention to your health. […]

CREATIVE PROCESS
There’s an extraordinary new type of brain scan called an fMRI that allows us to witness creative thinking while it’s happening. For the first time, we can see that creative thinking is not a mystical or divine force that shines down on us from the heavens (sorry, Elizabeth Gilbert!).

Guilt: Apologise Effectively
Prime Women Magazine, Published March 19, 2017 Feeling Guilty? Why Guilt Lingers and What To Do About It

FEELING STUCK?
You should stay away from your potential. You don’t want to find out that the most you could possibly achieve if you gave it your all and devoted yourself to improving yourself … would be maybe eating less cheesy snacks. – Dylan Moran

What Stands in the Way of Creative Thinking?
Perhaps you’ve heard of the amygdala. It is the lightning-fast brain section responsible for detecting potential threats and prompting fear responses, such as fight-or-flight. The amygdala sends signals to the hypothalamus to release bursts of stress hormones (such as cortisol and adrenaline), which promote arousal and prompt us to enact safety strategies. […]

TRAUMATIC MEMORIES
If you hide your trauma from yourself, you are likely to react like an animal in a thunderstorm, having a full body response to the hormones that signal danger. Without language or context, your awareness may be limited to ‘I am scared’. Yet, determined to stay in control, you are likely to avoid anybody or […]

The Science Behind Fear and Anxiety
Fear is the physical, mental, and emotional reaction to a threat that is present or imminent. Anxiety is caused by imagining threats or possible future danger. Our threat perception can be rational and reasonable or wildly disproportionate and unrealistic. However, our brains have difficulty telling the difference between real and imagined threats.

The Science Behind Creativity
What is creativity? There’s an extraordinary new type of brain scan called an fMRI that allows us to witness creative thinking while it’s happening. For the first time, we can see that creative thinking is not a mystical or divine force that shines down on us from the heavens (sorry, Elizabeth Gilbert!).

MONKEY THERAPY
In ancient Chinese 心猿 literally translates to monkey mind. These symbols suggest that our minds are full of drunken monkeys who chatter incessantly and swing wildly between thoughts.

Single Sessions and Packages via Skype
I offer single sessions and ten-session packages. Clients who choose ten-session packages usually attend sessions once a week or once every two weeks. If you want to continue after ten sessions, you can book another ten-session package or pay as you go. Have as many sessions as you need. Single-sessions are 90 minutes and […]

Feeling Stuck? Externalise your Resistance
You are not the problems that stand in your way. The problems are the problems. Work the problems. – Steven Pressfield

Steps You Can Take Now to Alleviate Anxiety Symptoms
Because anxiety is an emotion that is experienced not only in our minds (stories we tell ourselves, mental images), but also through our feelings (dread, fear), and in our bodies (racing heart, tense muscles), the following targets these three areas.

The Science Behind Depression
Most of our emotional brain function happens in the Limbic system where neurotransmitters such as serotonin (which stabilises mood), dopamine (makes us feel pleasure) and GABA (calms anxiety) all play a role in our emotional wellbeing. Sometimes our complex emotional system falters and we receive either excessive or insufficient amounts of these neurotransmitters and depression […]

THE RIGHT WAY TO VISUALIZE SUCCESS
We’ve been doing it all wrong!, says motivation researcher and author of Rethinking Positive Thinking, Gabrielle Oettinger.

The Science Behind Traumatic Memories
Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio studied emotions for over 30 years. His research suggested that emotions are motivators that have evolved over millions of years (1).

The Science Behind Stuckness
In the simplest terms, all stuckness, hesitation, resistance, or inability to change can be traced back to the emotion of fear. Sometimes this fear is well founded and easy to name, but sometimes it is outside of our awareness. To understand how fear underlies our stuckness, let´s look at how all emotions work together.

Steps You Can Take Now to Un-Stick
These four steps address common ways of thinking that may be causing your stuckness. Changing them will help you to move forward in the present and, over time, will positively change your way of thinking.

Step You Can Take Now to Alleviate Post-traumatic Stress Symptoms
If you are struggling with any of the above trauma-related reactions, the best plan of action is to see a psychotherapist. Recovery from trauma or PTSD can be difficult and painful but it is much better facilitated with support from a trained professional.