Relationships Articles

Read our articles on mental health and relationships written by ACT Counselling and CBT Services. We offer a range of accredited training and therapy in the world of mental health.

Drawing Therapy

The use of communication through drawing therapy when words are too hard… This article is a case study about a young client struggling with anxiety. It discusses how he and his therapist found a way to communicate with one another through the use of drawing therapy. Jake and his overwhelming anxiety Jake was too young […]

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The Tuesday club poem

One Tuesday in January two thousand and twenty, I went along to a new club, thinking I knew plenty.

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Frank Feelings

Frank didn’t do feelings. He was a man at all times. Anger doesn’t count as a feeling, Frank did anger.

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A slice of responsibility pie

One of my favourite things about counselling is the serendipity of working through a problem or difficulty with someone only to discover there is a big lesson in there for me…

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You are you, and I am I.

Age, occupation, interests, culture, and religion. We use all of these or none of these to connect to another.

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Sharon’s Magic Mountain

Once upon a time there was a young girl who embarked up the COSCA counselling course at ACT Counselling and CBT Services. She wanted to climb the magic…

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Inviting You to Share Good News

There is so much noise. It is deafening. Communication is in overload. We have a global catastrophe here and now.

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Attachment Theory Training

The ACT Counselling Services team are currently travelling around Scotland delivering a 1 day training event on John Bowlby’s Attachment Theory…

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Relationship Patterns

The ACT Counselling Services team have had 2 insightful weeks delivering inputs 6 and 7 of the ‘Practising Schema Focused Therapy’ course…

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Being Married to a CBT Therapist…

In the 10+ years that I have known my wife she has always been involved in helping people in some way, both in her professional life as well

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Anxiety and Internalised Rules

Children and mental health is an interesting and diverse topic and when thinking about the shaping of the personality during childhood in our last blog…

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Gestalt – a way of living. CPD Course.

Gestalt Psychotherapy gives us great insight and power and gives us the ability as human beings make sense of our lives. With this in mind, let’s reflect…

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