When you’re looking for therapy, one of the first practical questions is whether to meet in person or online. Both can be genuinely effective, and I offer both – but there are some real benefits to in-person sessions that are worth knowing about before you decide. Stepping out of your everyday environment When you’re looking […]
If you’ve been referred for EMDR, or stumbled across it while researching therapy options, you might be wondering what on earth it involves. The name alone – Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing – doesn’t make it immediately obvious. And some of the descriptions online can make it sound either mysterious, complicated, or both. This post
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A lot of people put off starting therapy not because they don’t want help, but because they’re not quite sure what they’re walking into. Will they be expected to talk about their whole life history? Will it feel clinical and cold? What if they don’t know what to say? These are entirely understandable concerns and
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You’ve worked hard to get where you are. So why does it still feel like you don’t quite belong — or that it’s only a matter of time before people find you out? If that question resonates, you’re not alone. Imposter syndrome is one of the most common things I work with as a therapist,
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Most of the people I work with aren’t failing. On paper, things often look fine – sometimes more than fine. They’re capable, thoughtful, hard-working, and in many cases, genuinely successful. But internally, it’s a different story. There’s a persistent sense of not being quite good enough, a quiet fear of being found out, and an
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Part of the Patterns that keep you Stuck Series Introduction We often think that avoidance looks like procrastination, for example: Scrolling instead of working.Watching Netflix instead of starting the work.Putting things off. But in therapy, I see something much subtler, and far more common among high achievers. People aren’t avoiding work, rather they’re avoiding discomfort.
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