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...
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...
How to Support Your Child Through Therapy Parents sometimes ask me how they can support their child through therapy. Indeed, some of my clients are parents whose children are getting therapy someplace else, perhaps through a school counselling service. They've often come to work on their...
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...
Folkestone has become such a vibrant place to live and work, that I am very pleased to be able to say that I have now opened up a therapy service in Folkestone. This is in addition to my current practice in Hythe. Counselling practice in Folkestone I...
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...
I'm pleased to announce I am now offering therapy in Hythe. I found a lovely counselling room within the Hythe business centre, which is actually a beautiful restored Victoria building. It certainly does not look like the "business centre" of grey carpet tiles and strip...
Counselling in Folkestone, Kent The Good Therapy Practice offers counselling in Folkestone, Kent, as well as Hythe, and online via Zoom. Founder, Human Givens counsellor, business psychologist and coach, Paula Gardner, focues on solution focused counselling. This means that it's all about where you are now,...