Christmas isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. You may even be dreading it – even now as I write this in November – not least because it involves spending time with…

No-one knows for sure how many pregnancies end in miscarriage, but we do know that it’s the most common adverse outcome of any pregnancy – and that at least one…

There is much of the ‘non commonsensical’ in the practice of therapy – therapists talk about the various and interlinked phenomena of ‘introjection’, ‘projection’, ‘projective identification’, and ‘transferences’. These so-called…

Fiona came to see me for talking therapy in the depths of despair. She had contacted me in the wake of a two-month period of feeling the lowest she had ever remembered…

Many wise people have noted the profoundly important space that exists between ‘stimulus’ and ‘reaction’ (I think Viktor Frankl spoke of this in his seminal book Man’s Search for Meaning)….

With a luxurious many days away from deadlines and work, I find myself caught up in a collective reflective mood. My email inbox fills up with round-ups and resolutions, blog…