Bessel Van Der Kolk is a leading trauma specialist and his latest book, The Body Keeps The Score is a brilliant synthesis of contemporary thinking about the impact of trauma…

Do I ever get bored of clients? Do I ever want to tell clients what to do? Do I ever dislike a client? How do I not get overloaded/emotionally exhausted?…

I’ve written before about the Monkey Mind – a brilliant memoir by an anxiety sufferer that I imagine to be helpful to the millions of anxiety sufferers. Scott Stossel’s memoir…

I can’t shake off the BBC documentary last week, ‘The Vikings are Coming’ – following a handful of determined, courageous and generally very impressive women on their various journeys to…

Written a while ago now, I’ve only just read Schopenhauer’s Porcupines: Intimacy And Its Dilemmas – a book for therapists and non-therapists which brilliantly conveys the struggles of relationships through…

My first session with a client does have a formula of sorts – I ask broad questions that aim to get a picture of the landscape of a client’s inner…