I speak a lot of the many experiences and difficulties of estrangement, but the one I come back the most often is the deep sense uncertainty because it is so consistent across everyone who I’ve spoken to. But why exactly …

There are many reasons why family relationships breakdown which might lead to estrangement but an obvious one is an inability to communicate effectively.

Similarly, there a lot of reasons why communication is poor, such as the general rules around communication within …

The media is rife at the moment with articles on the difficulty of going home to visit a dysfunctional (whatever that means to you) family over Christmas.  

You can find my latest contribution to one such article for the …

t was 4 am. Joan woke up as usual to check her phone. A chronic worrier, she was always on high alert, unable to relax for fear that something terrible might happen to someone in the family. This time she …

ne aspect of personal growth is re-reflecting on lessons learned and area’s of our lives where we had moments of clarity but got pulled back into our unique version of “normal”.

From expert to beginner, I think this is true …

you think I should be on anti-depressants?” a client recently asked.

I was a little taken back as we had worked for months and the therapy was focused on problems with the clients boyfriend. She had given no indication that …

e have become expects in self-sabotage, programmed to habitually over worry, over drink, over eat and over react to life’s problems.

A lot of my clients tell me about how, despite being physically tired, they regularly lie in bed unable …