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Anxiety


Counselling For Health Anxiety
Repeating bouts of anxiety about the state of our physical or mental health is a common reason for seeking counselling. Despite...

Caroline Clarke
Jun 5, 20193 min read
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Dealing With Intrusive Thoughts
Most of us have experienced intrusive thoughts at some point in our lives . They often arrive at times of high stress and can fill our...

Caroline Clarke
Feb 2, 20192 min read
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Change: Making The Unfamiliar, Familiar
When we come to counselling or psychotherapy we are usually looking for something in our lives to change. We talk things through and...

Caroline Clarke
Aug 28, 20183 min read
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Why Do People Leave Me?
A common problem brought to therapy is bewilderment as to why friends and potential romantic partners repeatedly leave us. Often, there...

Caroline Clarke
Jun 6, 20173 min read
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Men And Anxiety
What do you do if the very thought of talking about your anxiety with someone else makes you anxious? My guess is that you will hang on...

Caroline Clarke
Feb 4, 20172 min read
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Dwelling On The Past
Many people coming to counselling or psychotherapy for the first time describe how they cannot stop themselves from dwelling on old...

Caroline Clarke
Jan 15, 20172 min read
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Only The Lonely
We all have times in our lives when we are lonely . Feeling cut off from the support and companionship of others can be a huge source of...

Caroline Clarke
Oct 7, 20162 min read
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To Put It Another Way...
As human beings we are hard-wired to make sense of what happens to us. This is an important skill since good judgement about the world...

Caroline Clarke
Feb 9, 20162 min read
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Sticky Labels
Throughout our lives we will all receive messages from other people about who we are and what we are like. Such information will have a...

Caroline Clarke
Jan 24, 20162 min read
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Secrets & Lies
Most families have secrets of some sort. Unwelcome truths are withheld, lies might be told and the burden of information that must not...

Caroline Clarke
Dec 6, 20152 min read
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The Attention Seeker
Whenever I hear a person labeling someone else an 'Attention Seeker' , there is always something in their tone of voice or manner which...

Caroline Clarke
Nov 16, 20152 min read
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The 'Do Not Question!' Double Bind
Did you grow up in a household where one of the rules was to accept the word of those in authority without question? People who have...

Caroline Clarke
Oct 2, 20153 min read
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Logic Versus Emotion
A recurring theme when working with communication difficulties is how to find common ground when one person approaches life's challenges...

Caroline Clarke
Sep 13, 20153 min read
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Counselling For Psychosomatic Pain or Illness
"But when one does not complain , and when one wants to master oneself with a tyrant’s grip — one’s faculties rise in revolt — and one...

Caroline Clarke
Jul 6, 20153 min read
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Facing Our Own Mortality
We all know that we are born, that we live - and then we die. Mostly, we manage to deal with the fact that we are mortal and get on with...

Caroline Clarke
Jun 13, 20152 min read
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How To Tackle Compulsive Behaviour
Compulsive behaviour can range from a need to have the tins in your food cupboard lined up in a neat row with the labels all facing the...

Caroline Clarke
May 13, 20153 min read
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Whose Past Is In Your Present?
I frequently come across examples of how unprocessed feelings associated with a distressing event or circumstances are passed down...

Caroline Clarke
Mar 1, 20152 min read
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Things Can Only Get Better?
Many of us are prompted to come to therapy for one of two reasons: when something in our lives goes seriously wrong; or feelings such as...

Caroline Clarke
Dec 3, 20142 min read
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Panic And The Quicksand Effect
We will all face times in our lives when our world is turned up side down and the everyday routine we previously took for granted...

Caroline Clarke
Oct 4, 20142 min read
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Panic Attacks - How Counselling Can Help
Panic attacks commonly bring people to counselling or psychotherapy. Usually, I am asked how to make them go away. Rather than simply...

Caroline Clarke
May 21, 20142 min read
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