Many people don’t know the difference between a psychologist, counsellor or psychotherapist and it can make looking for therapy confusing. Counsellors and psychotherapists are qualified in supporting you with many difficulties and challenges which you may not need a psychologist for. Find out more.

The spring’s arrival invites us to clean up and declutter. Learn about why and how recognising unhelpful thinking patterns, finding lightness, orienting towards positives and becoming intentional about your choices can help you cleanse, energise and restart this spring.

Therapists don’t really have it all figured out. They are human beings who face life’s inevitable challenges and stressors just like anyone else. If the idea that your therapist might need therapy of their own unsettles you, read on to find out why you want your therapist to do their own therapy.

Are you feeling disconnected from yourself or questioning who you really are? Do you feel like something’s missing? You might have been living the way you thought you were supposed to and lost yourself along the way? Learn about how listening to our body helps us reconnect with our authentic self.

Authenticity allows for deeper and more genuine connections. It enables us to live a more joyful, meaningful and fulfilling life. How and why did you learn to mask who you really are? What have you lost along the way? Find out what gets in the way of you being yourself and how to start changing that.

Most of us didn’t get much help around healthy ways to process emotions and as a result developed coping strategies and habits that may start causing trouble later on in life. Learn about what emotions are, why they are important and how to process them in healthy ways in this article.

Daniela MacAulay, a gestalt psychotherapist provides her reflections on Jonah Hill’s Netflix original documentary “Stutz” about his relationship with his therapist, Phil Stutz, who is also the author of a unique method ‘The Tools’, which he uses in his work to help people live a more fulfilling life.

What happens to our nervous system when you feel anxious? Why do we disconnect from the present moment when we’re anxious? Practise these grounding techniques that can help you come back to the ‘here and now’. Learn about why they help when you’re anxious and how they can prevent anxiety long-term.

Learn about the way your beliefs and self-talk link to your anxiety. Where do our beliefs come from? What have they got to do with feeling anxious? How do the things you say to yourself impact how you feel? What to do with beliefs that no longer serve you? Why understanding your triggers helps?

Understanding our anxiety helps manage it and minimise its impacts on our life. We look at how our nervous system responds to perceived threats; why unpacking your experience is important; why therapy helps and how other emotions and the stories we tell ourselves about them impact our anxiety.

Why did the world pandemic cause more people to suffer from mental health problems? How has built-up stress contributed to the overall increase in people experiencing anxiety after re-entering life in the “new normal”? What have we learnt from it and how can we start healing?

While it may feel scary at first, becoming aware of your responsibility over the choices you make in life is empowering and leads to more authenticity, freedom and deeper connections with others. Find out why in this article.

Despite life’s limitations and restrictions, we can always choose how we respond to our individual circumstances. Our attitude to every moment in our life is a choice no-one can take away from us. We may not have control over a lot of things in life, but we do always have a choice.