Life is Fragile & Precious (a client’s perspective)
How many of us are going about our daily lives right now, calm, with a sense of safety and a feeling of “all is well” ? As a child, I lived in constant fear that close behind me there was…
Lockdown: a therapist’s perspective
Like all in the caring professions therapists have been working overtime trying to respond to life in lockdown. How can we transfer our work online and still maintain the precious relational connection we have with our clients? How do we…
Effective Hayfever Prevention Programme
I have worked with many clients with hayfever using homeopathic remedies over the years, but usually only during the hayfever season. One of the strategies is to use remedies made from pollen and grass to build up resistance, along with…
Is Therapy Selfish? More perspectives on ‘healthy selfishness’
"When someone is in therapy it can seem like self-absorption to those around them, but this is a necessary and temporary state. Regular, well-boundaried therapy ideally leads to people developing clearer awareness of themselves and how they relate to others.…
Day two: Narcissism – is therapy just ‘all about me’?
Yesterday we introduced the idea of 'healthy selfishness'; but isn’t this a narcissistic way of thinking, believing that life is ‘all about me’? In fact, selfishness, defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as “…concerned primarily with one's own interests, benefits,…