Long periods of frequent or severe anxiety can be both exhausting and debilitating. Excessive fear and worry uses up our precious - and finite - emotional resources, leaving us with less time and energy for other areas of our lives and for the people we love and care about. What can be done? Lessons From Therapy I have been working in Brighton as a psychotherapist with people suffering from problematic anxiety since 2011. Although every person's experience of tackling overwh

Could it be that our response to change itself is preventing us from experimenting with more fulfilling ways of being in our own skin and relating to others?

Many people coming to counselling or psychotherapy for the first time describe how they cannot stop themselves from dwelling on old hurts or mistakes from the past. The memories are, without exception, negative and often evoke feelings of frustration and shame. How can counselling or psychotherapy help? The Stuck Record Rationally, we probably know that repeatedly thinking about the times we have failed in some way or have felt misunderstood and let down by others does us n

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 gives rise to emotional and physical safety. Sometimes, however, we might be continuing to interpret our current experiences based on skewed or narrow unconscious assumptions about how to approach life that we have made in childhood, adolescence or at a traumatic time in our lives. How might therapy help? A Simple Example of the Power of Int

We all get anxious . Most of the time we can contain the feelings that accompany anxiety; we know that they are uncomfortable but also...