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22Jan

What is Trauma?

Nicole Addis

anxiety, bereavement, depression, divorce, redundancy, stress, therapy, trauma

Therapists

Trauma affects us in various ways and can come from a wide range of events. Psychotherapist Nicole Addis explores the symptoms of trauma and what might cause it
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20Jan

Beat Blue Monday

Lucy Beresford

depression, stress

Therapists

As if Mondays didn’t always get a bad press for being the most miserable day of the week, now apparently we need to be alert for the fact that today is Blue Monday – the most depressing day of the year. Although not actually proven by science, anecdotally it would seem that the perfect storm of bad weather, post-Christmas family angst, a flurry of credit card statements, and the dawning realisation that we’re wobbling on our New Year’s resolutions, can make even the most glass-half-full person feel bleak. To some extent, the idea of one day of the year being worse than...
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16Jan

How a Gay Man Found His Thrills

Anonymous Therapist

emotionalabuse, experienceoftherapy, identity, LGBT, therapy

Therapists

Thrill-seeking was not the reason why this man sought therapy, but it came to be an answer to his problems
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15Jan

What is EMDR Therapy?

anxiety, depression, emdr, PTSD, trauma, typesoftherapy

Therapists

EMDR is a relatively new kind of psychotherapy. Gillian Levy explains how EMDR can be used to treat trauma, with sometimes amazing results
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10Jan

How Our Anxieties Can Play Out in the Home

Anonymous Therapist

anxiety, experienceoftherapy, home, therapy

Therapists

How a woman used housework to try to contain her feelings of anxiety
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09Jan

What Does a Therapist's Consulting Room Look Like?

Camilla Nicholls

experienceoftherapy, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, therapy

Therapists

What can you expect from the inside of a therapist's consulting room?
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08Jan

Mindfullness is not Mindfulness

Aaron Balick

mindfulness

Therapists

The cursor on my screen moves along swiftly. My wifi is off and my mobile is on “do not disturb” – so no emails, no notifications, and no phone-calls or texts. I’m not worried. I know that in about 30 minutes I’ll check all those devices and whatever I need to attend to can wait until then. Just now I have to write this column and I want to be mindful and present for the task. In many ways, there’s something delightfully calming about this, which is paradoxical because it’s still work. It seems that as mindfulness is gaining more space in the public conversation, our...
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20Dec

Can You Pass Anxiety Onto Your Children?

Anonymous Therapist

anxiety, experienceoftherapy, family, motherhood, parenting

Therapists

How therapy helped a young woman whose anxiety was linked to events in her childhood
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19Dec

It Still Hurts: Being a Child of Divorce

Elaine

children, divorce, emotions, family, teenager

Therapists

Even when you're a grownup, the divorce of your parents is a hard experience to live with says therapist Elaine Leonard
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13Dec

When Siblings Get Left Behind

Anonymous Therapist

experienceoftherapy, family, siblings, therapy

Therapists

Even when we've left the family home, our childhood and sibling relationships often come with us
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