Fair enough we may want to understand why it is we feel a certain way – depressed, anxious, jealous or just stuck in a rut of distress. But importantly, we…

Ariel Leve came to understand how her life was painfully affected by her truly disturbed mother relatively late in life. In her beautifully written memoir, she shares her journey to…

Sofie Bager-Charleson is well placed to have written her latest book, Doing Practice-Based Research in Therapy: A Reflexive Approach. A psychotherapist, supervisor, writer of fiction and non-fiction and Doctoral academic…

This book review appears in the BACP divisional Private Practice Journal. Meditation, and mindfulness in particular, is now an accepted and ever popular tool for wellbeing and mental health. Simon…

Nobody can see the yelling that takes place on the inside. All they can see is how calm I am when they join the yelling. They see me smile, and…

I work with many women who are struggling to conceive, and may be enduring the stress of fertility interventions. One mentioned reading Jessica Hepburn’s The Pursuit of Motherhood – so…