Psychotherapy is a form of talking therapy that helps people understand thoughts, emotions and patterns of behaviour, and develop healthier ways of coping and relating. It is used for issues such as anxiety, depression, trauma, grief and relationship difficulties.
Different approaches exist (for example psychodynamic, integrative, CBT-informed), and a good therapist will explain what they offer and how progress will be reviewed.
Shadow, Projection, and Growth in Intimate Partnership Intimate relationship has a unique way of revealing us to ourselves. Qualities we admire in our partner, as well as those we struggle with most, often hold important information about our own inner…
What Happens When Third Parties Enter the Relational Space In intimate relationships, much of what happens between us is never communicated through words alone. Human beings are deeply relational and emotionally sensitive. We notice shifts in tone, warmth, attention, emotional…
How childhood poverty and financial insecurity can shape trauma, survival and our ability to feel safe. There is increasing recognition of the importance of living in the present moment. Across many therapeutic, spiritual and contemplative traditions, we are invited to…
Can relationships help us grow? We often hope that a loving relationship will bring comfort, ease, and security. Yet many couples discover that intimacy also brings old wounds, familiar patterns, and difficult emotions to the surface. Rather than seeing this…
Why is it so hard to let go? For many people, letting go is not simply a matter of making a decision. When we've spent years living in survival mode, holding everything together can become the way our body learns…
Not every lonely man looks lonely. He may be working, providing, joking, helping others, and appearing to cope. Yet underneath, many men carry stress, grief, anger, shame, numbness, or exhaustion without a safe place to say, “I’m struggling.” Many men…
Happiness is often treated as a simple question?— What makes us feel good? But modern neuroscience gives a far more nuanced answer: Happiness is not a single emotion. It is a dynamic brain state —?a pattern of activity across neural…
Childhood should be a time of safety, nurturing, and growth. Unfortunately, for many individuals, early life experiences include abuse, neglect, or other traumatic events that leave lasting emotional and psychological wounds. While the abuse may have occurred years or even…
To my fellow psychologists, this is an invitation to expand our practice in response to a changing world of work. And to those living with work and life instability: "you are not alone. Your worth is not determined by a…
Connection without self-abandonment. There is a subtle space in every intimate relationship, a living, breathing field that exists between two people. It is shaped by presence, by history, by nervous systems, by what has been spoken and what has been…
When familiarity, attachment, and emotional intensity become confused with love. Sometimes people who feel like home to us do so because they evoke a deep sense of familiarity within the nervous system. There may be an immediate pull, intensity, excitement,…
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