Is the constant rain getting you down? This blog explores how rainy weather, and sunnier skies, can be a metaphor for what happens in therapy.

Gifting and receiving gifts can throw up complex emotions and feelings of anxiety, shame, resentment, grief and loss. Gifting can trigger past hurts. This blog explores some of the psychological and emotional complexity of gifting as well as how counselling can help with anxiety, shame, resentment, grief and loss.

The third of five in-depth blogs exploring loss, grief and bereavement. Finding a way through loss prompts many people to seek counselling. In this blog we look at two ways to make some meaning of grief.

This second blog in a series of five in-depth articles on grief takes a look at one of the models that can be used to try to make meaning of bereavement, loss and grief.

Grief and loss are, sadly, an inevitable part of life for each of us. Many people seek counselling for bereavement. This first blog in a series of 5 detailed articles exploring grief considers why it can feel so difficult speaking about our loss, and explores common reactions to grief.