I’d been seeing a young couple for a number of weeks. To start with it was too difficult for them to be in the same room together so they...

Last year I saw a young couple from south London who came to counselling to try to salvage their 12-year marriage. The wife had virtually...

This blog post was written for the Carvalho Consultancy, for whom I work part time. I'm reproducing it here to give it a wider audience....

The past couple of weeks have been sad and unsettling. The heartbreaking death of Sarah Everard has led to outpourings of grief and anger...

“I didn’t tell her about it because I didn’t want to upset her.” I heard this a couple of years ago from one of my clients. And I’ve...

For couples everywhere, spending so much more time together during lockdown is a gift as well as a challenge. Forced proximity = new...

This week the Archbishop of Canterbury called for a healing of divisions between people. He suggested contacting someone we have drifted...

There have been two heartbreaking stories recently of children suffering because of parents who have separated and are now at war. The...

Quite of few of these blog posts are responses to something I have watched, heard or read. I recently saw a very moving documentary on...

A really interesting programme on Radio 4 recently about ambivalence. Maybe it doesn't sound all that riveting but it has all sorts of...

I've been thinking a lot recently about a subject that the American social worker and researcher Brené Brown tackles brilliantly in her...

A few years ago some of finest minds in the field of mental health and wellbeing came together to compile a shortlist of five keys...

A while ago a friend recommended Matthew Walker's book Why We Sleep: the new science of sleep and dreams. "It changed my life," she said....