The Evolution of Marriage Guidance: From Advice to Couples Therapy When I was growing up, struggling couples went to "Marriage Guidance." While some therapy may have been involved, there was probably a lot of advice. That advice, meanwhile, would have been geared towards the traditional family...
As a Human Givens relationship counsellor, my approach to Couples Counselling uses the Human Givens model. In short, a lot of it is about your needs. Everyone has fundamental physical and emotional needs—the"givens"—which contribute to emotional well-being and resilience. In couples counselling, I help partners...
Can I Go To Couples Therapy On My Own? I often get asked this by people keen to improve their relationship, but for one reason or another, want or need to come on their own. Of course, the ideal is that you are both there, ready...
Walk and talk therapy in Folkestone and Hythe Have you considered walk and talk therapy? Picture this: a sunny day, a gentle breeze, and you, strolling through a park or along a beach with your therapist by your side. Walk and Talk Therapy not only gets...
Will therapy help SAD? I'm about to talk about this for my stint on Folkestone Academy FM tomorrow and the clocks are going back this week, so I thought this was the perfect time to look at SAD, or seasonal affective disorder as it's known. I...
EMDR is the latest buzz word in therapy. It is a method of dealing with trauma that uses eye movements to densensitise yourself to the event. However, not everyone gets on with the technique. For start, it can be expensive, and you may need up...
Are You Wondering "Is Therapy Worth the Cost?" One thing every counselling client has to consider is the price of therapy. I won't beat about the bush, therapy is an investment, so it is worth pondering if it's going to be worth the cost to you....
How online therapy works, and is it as good as face to face? I often speak to possible clients who ask me how does online therapy work, and does it work as well as in person counselling? While some of my clients are from Hythe or...
When You Are Feeling Like A Failure Dealing with those unwanted thoughts of feeling like a failure I often see business owners, and many non-business owners, muse about how they are feeling like a failure; that they haven't done enough in life. Perhaps their business isn't where...
I moved to Folkestone, from London, in April 2021. Moving out of London was on my wish-list for a few years. As each of my children grew up and left school, the need to stay in London grew less and less, until, with the last...