It can be very difficult to make sense of counselling and psychotherapy, especially at stressful and emotional times. I have developed my website to try to make your experience as helpful and useful as possible. I hope you find it informative. If after visiting the site you would like to discuss things further, then please contact me to arrange a free telephone consultation.
I welcome your comments, feedback and ideas, and I look forward to hearing from you. I am a UKCP registered psychotherapist and counsellor working in Little Milton, Oxfordshire. I have 20 years experience of working with people dealing with depression, low mood, anxiety states, trauma, bereavement and addictions. This means that I have a lot of experience to offer you.
I work on both a short and long term basis with people who are trying to work through a variety of situations and problems. Sometimes relating to a specific event such as bereavement, divorce or redundancy, sometimes relating to a more general problem or behaviour.
I welcome your comments, feedback and ideas, and I look forward to hearing from you. I am a UKCP registered psychotherapist and counsellor working in Little Milton, Oxfordshire. I have 20 years experience of working with people dealing with depression, low mood, anxiety states, trauma, bereavement and addictions. This means that I have a lot of experience to offer you.
I work on both a short and long term basis with people who are trying to work through a variety of situations and problems. Sometimes relating to a specific event such as bereavement, divorce or redundancy, sometimes relating to a more general problem or behaviour.
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I spoke to psychotherapist Toby Ingham who told me that embracing each other plays an important part in making, repairing and strengthening connections between us.
He says, 'When we are hugged we feel close and intimate, creating a feeling of warmth.
There are a lot of people who get very few hugs and miss the feeling of being held.'
The smell - and clothes - of a loved one could have a powerfully calming effect.
So claims a study, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, which tested 96 women, who were asked to randomly smell one of three scents - a male partner's, a stranger's or a neutral scent.
He says, 'When we are hugged we feel close and intimate, creating a feeling of warmth.
There are a lot of people who get very few hugs and miss the feeling of being held.'
The smell - and clothes - of a loved one could have a powerfully calming effect.
So claims a study, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, which tested 96 women, who were asked to randomly smell one of three scents - a male partner's, a stranger's or a neutral scent.
Psychotherapy and counselling is one-to-one work.
It is always developed around understanding your particular needs, dilemmas and situation.
It is specific to you.
Our tendency is to go round and round the same problems without finding ways to change anything other than in ways that temporarily alleviate the pressure.
These might include spending money to buy ourselves a treat, or dating the wrong person, or getting drunk, or maybe just watching television.
Some might say that a psychotherapist is just there for times of crisis.
It is always developed around understanding your particular needs, dilemmas and situation.
It is specific to you.
Our tendency is to go round and round the same problems without finding ways to change anything other than in ways that temporarily alleviate the pressure.
These might include spending money to buy ourselves a treat, or dating the wrong person, or getting drunk, or maybe just watching television.
Some might say that a psychotherapist is just there for times of crisis.
Systemic therapy is interested in the way you as an individual relate to, and are in relationship with other people.
It is a therapy that is interested in how you fit within the various groups and communities you are part of.
Systemic therapy looks to understand and recognise unhealthy and complicated patterns of relating.
Systemic therapy looks to understand and recognise unhealthy patterns in your relationships and to identify ways in which you can consciously alter the ways in which you are involved with other people to make them more constructive.
It is a therapy that is interested in how you fit within the various groups and communities you are part of.
Systemic therapy looks to understand and recognise unhealthy and complicated patterns of relating.
Systemic therapy looks to understand and recognise unhealthy patterns in your relationships and to identify ways in which you can consciously alter the ways in which you are involved with other people to make them more constructive.
There will be various personalised markers of what the experience of feeling like a failure means to you, and those are things that may need to be pursued in a confidential setting.
I work with people to help them get a better grasp of the experience they are describing when they speak of a sense of failure.
This means that it can be thought about and contained and possibly in time become less destructive, and hold people less tightly in its grip.
For some people, the sense that 'I feel like a failure' means that as soon as they start to think about the problem they feel like they are failing again.
I work with people to help them get a better grasp of the experience they are describing when they speak of a sense of failure.
This means that it can be thought about and contained and possibly in time become less destructive, and hold people less tightly in its grip.
For some people, the sense that 'I feel like a failure' means that as soon as they start to think about the problem they feel like they are failing again.
When we talk about catastrophising we are referring to seeing something as considerably worse than it is or might be.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) works on helping the client develop a more constructive way of thinking, not just on changing their behaviour.
CBT therapists work to help people change the way they think things through.
It is easy to caricature different therapeutic models, but CBT tends to focus more on the surface issue rather than engaging with underlying problems.
CBT might suggest that instead of getting swept up in an overwhelming negative and catastrophic vision of how things are developing, you should try to pick out details of life that feel better or positive and try to keep them in mind.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) works on helping the client develop a more constructive way of thinking, not just on changing their behaviour.
CBT therapists work to help people change the way they think things through.
It is easy to caricature different therapeutic models, but CBT tends to focus more on the surface issue rather than engaging with underlying problems.
CBT might suggest that instead of getting swept up in an overwhelming negative and catastrophic vision of how things are developing, you should try to pick out details of life that feel better or positive and try to keep them in mind.
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