Tag Archives: Self Awareness

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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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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Vicarious Trauma

We empathise with the hard end of human suffering on a consistent basis. For some Therapists/Professionals, this might be daily…

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An Introduction to CBT

The ACT Counselling Services Team are looking forward to the delivery of our 1 day ‘Introduction to the Theory and Practise of Cognitive…

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Substance Misuse and Therapy

It is a well known fact, and yes you have probably read or heard it before that Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)…

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Triggers for Substance Misuse

With CBT in Groups, where clients are given the opportunity to work with their counsellor on a 1:1 basis regarding the substance…

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Food and Mood

Our brain – the organ that holds the door to a complex world of cognitive and emotional functioning; shaping our every day lives…

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Rules for Living

So what do we mean by ‘rules.’ What we mean is ‘Rules for Living.’ A rule for living is the behavioural adjustment that a child makes in order to cope…

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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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Relapse prevention

When is the best time to introduce a relapse prevention plan? Well, regardless of the goal, how do you keep going with the plan and not give into…

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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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Ellis’ Absolutistic Beliefs

Albert Ellis who as many of our readers will know was the founder of Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy (REBT), one of the approaches that influenced…

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Relapse Prevention in Models of Therapy

Our attention turns to Relapse Prevention Therapy and the models used within it. Relapse Prevention and Management techniques should be skilfully passed…

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Negative Thinking

Negative thinking affects all of us. We have designed our own Psycho education process that can help identify, clarify and evaluate unhelpful thoughts…

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