Do you prefer to ease yourself into it gradually, like slowly stepping into a cold swimming pool, allowing your body to adjust to the temperature at its own pace, or do you just plunge straight into it, trusting that your brain will just accept the sudden change, feeling the shock of it initially but then

Supporting staff in the workplace via supervision sessions, focusing on mental wellbeing and resilience is one of my favourite roles. I admire those who work in a psychologically demanding environment, have high levels of responsibility and heavy workloads, and still take the time to pause and reflect on how they are really doing, every month.

It has been a little while since our last update on here. The reason for this is the usual: really busy with work, struggling to squeeze everything into what seem to be increasingly short days and so on. Often I hear clients and supervisees talk about their frustrations around never getting to concentrate on, let

Children and young people can often feel overwhelmed by their own emotions and by events going on around them. Their perceptions of the world, and themselves, can be affected by their struggles, which is why we feel it is vital to have support in place when needed. If a child or a young person knows

Have you been feeling more tired, irritable or perhaps forgetful lately? Recently I have come across more and more staff within schools and other organisations reportedly feeling overwhelmed and struggling to cope. A number of factors seem to be contributing to this – from heavy workloads and unhelpful dynamics to pandemic related anxiety – we

As some students in the UK are returning to school this week after six weeks off, it got me thinking about how challenging it can be to return to work after a holiday or any kind of break. Emotions can oscillate from a general lack of inspiration and indifference, to a full on feeling of

What is self care and how can we think about it in a more helpful way?

Alex shares some thoughts on EMDR therapy. This therapy approach is incredibly effective and is focused and usually short term. One particular protocol within EMDR is called Blind to Therapist Protocol, and can be used when a client feels that articulating/explaining/describing a particular memory would be too difficult or distressing. This specific way of delivering

Kate Carter, NLP therapist, talks about the way she works with clients.