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How To Be There For Someone Who’s Suicidal

How are you meant to respond when someone tells you they’re having thoughts about suicide? This isn’t something that was taught in school and it can be an understandably intimidating and even overwhelming to confront. There’s no one size fits all solution when dealing with these situations but there are ways you can approach it that will make that person…

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What You Can Find With Relationship Counselling

When I’m asked the age-old question “So what do you do?” I give my answer and almost always get the same response “ooooo can you psychoanalyse me”? Firstly, no that is highly unethical, we just met, secondly well actually hell yeah I can. Professionally, that is a big part of what I do, I try to understand what is going…
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The Struggle With Relationships

The struggle is real. Well at least for many, there is a significant struggle when it comes to relationships. There are patterns of the same old shit giving you the same old results. You might not even notice how standard your response or reaction to coping with difficult times in or out of relationships actually is. In my opinion relationships…
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Online Counselling – The Way We Can Now Connect

Online Counselling is becoming the new chosen platform in the times we are currently in. Online Counselling simply means via Telehealth or Phone call. When we are in isolation we need to not be socially distant, we need to connect now more than ever. Peter Levine speaks about currently it being physically distant rather than socially distance and the incredibly…

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Let’s talk about Codependency

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Let's talk about Codependency   Alright. Let's start with a small disclaimer, I am codependent! Something that I must constantly reflect on and manage regularly in my life. Much larger disclaimer, quite a lot of therapists are also codependent. Matter of fact, a lot of individuals identify and relate to a lot of elements of codependency. So, what is this…
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The Importance of Connection  

There is something about seeing a person walking down the street with a wonderful bouquet of flowers. Whether it has just been received or at the start of the journey to its delivery. Whether for a sombre occasion or celebration of something special, it’s the purity of the persons intentions to attempt to connect with another. Sure, we don’t need…
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The Relationship with Addiction

From video gaming, porn and gambling to dysfunctional eating patterns and other drugs, addiction plays out in any behaviour that will allow temporary reward or relief. I say the above examples as it does not matter what the external behaviour or activity is that one pursues, the issue with addiction is the internal relationship that one has with that behaviour. …
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Reasons to go to Therapy

Reasons to go to Therapy Therapy, Counselling, Psychotherapy, call it what you want, why should I do any of it? The answer is not simple nor is it one size fits all. The short answer: Therapy is for everyone come and start kicking some goals!!! If you want more than some short answers, then keep having a read-through; Whether the…
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