ITV News – Impostor Syndrome ITV recently covered the subject of Impostor Syndrome and asked me for my professional opinion on this subject. Watch the full news article: … [Read more...]
Psychobabble
Life is full of challenges and decisions, psychotherapy and counselling offer ways to handle some of the more challenging emotional and psychological ones.
What is Impostor Syndrome
I was recently asked by the BBC to answer the question 'What is Impostor Syndrome' in a recent article that they wrote on the subject following Michelle Obama's recent disclosure on the subject ... read the full article … [Read more...]
Relationships Therapy
I was recently asked to do an interview for an American relationships therapy website www.relationshipsarecomplicated.com. Here’s a transcript of the interview: Relationship Are Complicated (RAC): How and/or why did you become a therapist?Rachel … [Read more...]
Marching into Spring
Last week and this week bring with them: The Spring Equinox Easter The clocks going forward. What do all these things have in common? They all contain within them the shift of season. Out of winter and into Spring. With this shift comes … [Read more...]
Valentines Day – Be Kind To Yourself
It will not be news to many of you that valentine’s day can feel like a difficult time of year. It could be that you are single and want to be in a relationship, have gone through a break up, experienced the death of a loved one, or are in a … [Read more...]
Coping with the New Year
Hopeful or Hopeless? A Beginning or an End? January can often see an influx of people trying therapy . . . Yet why is this? It’s a funny old time isn’t it? Arguably the most “intense” (for whatever reason it was for you) time of the year is over, … [Read more...]
Why does Christmas begin in October? Coping with Christmas stress and winter blues
“I swear it starts earlier and earlier” we say . . . “It’s too soon!” we cry . . . “Did you know [fill in as appropriate] has their Christmas tree up already?!” … It’s an age-old tale . . . As this time of year approaches, and we notice that the … [Read more...]
SAD about the Clocks going back …?
The clocks have gone back . . . A signifier to some of us of something that we may not have noticed so far . . . It has officially transitioned to winter. The evenings are coming along faster at the end of each day, it’s light for a lot less of the … [Read more...]
Harvey Weinstein and Triggering Responses
What does it mean to be “triggered” or to have a “triggering” response? Have you ever had the experience of hearing a joke, or something said in passing either to you or in a group and, rather than finding the comment either funny, interesting or … [Read more...]
Do I have PTSD?
Welldoing.org recently asked me to write an article on my thoughts around Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome (PTSD), was a term first coined following the Vietnam war to describe the reaction some veterans were … [Read more...]
