by davidcounsel | Sep 27, 2018 | Addictions, Anxiety, Counselling, Depression
Counselling Reflections on ‘Patrick Melrose’ Drama on Sky Atlantic What did you see? Addiction Abuse Trauma Unfaithfulness Under the headline subjects were: fear, the destruction of trust, shameful- and shameless- ness, pain And the response of human beings in order...
by davidcounsel | Feb 19, 2018 | Counselling
Child in the Adult Did you know that 95% of perception of ourselves in the world is shaped by the time we are 3? Therefore becoming older can be difficult; maturing physically into an older person from teens to twenties, thirties and into old age. – Childhood...
by davidcounsel | Feb 16, 2018 | Addictions, Counselling
Addictions everywhere Instant fixing? The government has set up a task force to investigate the rise in apparent addiction to prescription drugs fuelled, they say, by a disproportionate two-thirds of those being ‘middle aged women’. Are addictions...
by davidcounsel | Feb 8, 2018 | Counselling, Depression, Mental wellbeing, Workplace
Depression descrimination Adding insult to injury Mental health awareness is more in the public domain and it is starting to be taken seriously. What you don’t need when feeling depressed is more bad news. For the 10% who are clinically depressed and the 25% who have...
by davidcounsel | Jan 24, 2018 | Anxiety, Counselling
Being noticed – Revealing choices Bright garish rooms, flamboyant cloths, red cars: we make colour choices all the time in our lives. As a Psychotherapist and Counsellor such choices and the resulting way in which we are seen can be revealing. Being noticed?...
