Therapy taught me slowly to help myself – Megan Beech (The Guardian 29th December 2015)
‘Counselling helped me to get my voice back, which I now use often and buoyantly, as I perform poems about feminism and my struggles with depression.’ Photograph: Camera Press Ltd/Alamy “I just worry about not having gained anything,” I mumbled anxiously at my therapist during our final session together in June this year. “Maybe it takes […]
The offer of Counselling
The Offer of Counselling Many counselling addressed issues involve ‘loss’: bereavement divorce illness, and or related ‘absence’ the resultant consequences anger depression fear and, topically, violence, forming the material of counselling. One therapist C. Rogers believed humans were basically good but it is the absence of warmth honesty and understanding which lead to issues which […]
Mental Health service for expectant mums (Folosho Oshoko)
By April 2019, new and expectant mums will be able to access specialist perinatal mental health community services in every part of the country. This is from NHS England website. Among other things hormonal changes to Pregnant and post-partum mothers can disorientate mothers who may then need hospital care. When we feel cared for our brain […]
BBC – This is British behaviour and Counselling
‘’This is BBC2’’ British Behaviour and Counselling. I enjoy watching Gina Yasheer for the past year telling how she became a comic. I like it because it shows a generational change and conflict of parent with children when one generation grows in a place different from its parental home. Gina is of Nigerian parentage bought […]