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I am sitting in my living room and enjoying my first cup of tea of the year and something felt very different and I couldn't place it. Then I realised it was silence. I live on a main road and usually there is the lull of traffic going by that I thought I was good at zoning out of but I must always be aware of it because the silence is noticeable. This is New Year morning where a lot of people are having a lie in, some will be nursing a hangover or at least have a fuzzy head.

My Christmas break has begun. I finished work at lunchtime on Friday and attended a great Christmas concert on Saturday night, some Carols, some oldies and some classic pop songs, accompanied by a string quartet, acoustic guitars and saxophone....it really got me in the Christmas spirit, so much so come Monday I was already wondering what day it is! Not everyone has the same fondness for Christmas as I do. I know that only too well from my therapy clinic. For some, Christmas

I have just logged on to finish a blog I had started writing last week...the blog was a long time coming, not because it was difficult to write but because work has been very busy and I've also had some family health issues to deal with which knocked me sideways. Those 'nice to do' jobs (like my blog) were pushed way down my list of things to do. Anyway here I am logging on to complete the post I started only to find that it hadn't saved. That is very annoying. I remember I h

The majority of people who come to see me have experienced a trauma in their life, many would not label it as such. A previous blog (...

Today is World Mental Health Awareness day. The theme this year is workplace mental health. I work with many people where workplace...

Living with pain is tough. If the only time you don't feel the pain is when you're asleep you never get a break. I had a car accident...

A bit delayed but I'm going to reflect on the EMDR conference that was in York on 15th and 16th March. I was in two minds whether to give...

I started the year with a chest infection, I struggled to sleep at night, I couldn't leave the house without struggling to breathe, I...

Having just posted my last blog I came across this on LinkedIn....I don't think I need to say anymore and just let you view...

It's been a while...I've been busy working, relaxing and being poorly in equal measures since my last post, and so my blog fell to the...

I have a guest writer on the blog this week...Cheryl Conklin from https://wellnesscentral.info/ Cheryl considers a variety of ways to...

Today is World Mental Health day. The theme for this year is 'Mental health is a universal human right'. The World Federation for Mental...

I have such a rewarding and varied job. I have often written about the wins clients have told me about. Today I am really pleased to...

A client once said to me that doing EMDR was like a mist lifting. The mist was the belief that she was to blame for the traumas she had...

Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing therapy is not easy. I have some clients who are struggling at the moment. Trauma is like a...

This year the focus of mental health awareness week is anxiety. I see a lot of people who struggle with anxiety. Anxiety takes many...

I always intended to write a blog to say a fond farewell to the York Clinic but life took over. I've been at my new base for 3 months now...

I am always so humbled to receive a thank you gift from a client. I understand that their life has (hopefully) changed for the better and...

I sometimes get asked 'when are we going to start the actual therapy?'. It is really important that before we embark on your trauma...

I'm writing this blog on holiday. Not because I can't switch off from work quite the opposite...but because I've switched off I actually...