Christmas: A Season That Is Not Easy for Everyone Throughout much of the UK and the western world, Christmas carries a powerful cultural script: joy, closeness, abundance, family harmony, warmth. However, in the therapy room — and in life — the reality is often far more complex. For many people, Christmas is not simply a celebration. It’s a time when emotions intensify, memories surface, family dynamics tighten, and expectations skyrocket. As a therapist and as I reflect myse

Endings are never just endings. Especially in therapy. One of the most tender parts of this work, a part people don’t always talk about, is the ending. Therapy endings carry a particular weight. They can feel warm, bittersweet, proud, painful, or quietly significant. And for me, as a therapist, they’re often all of those things at once. Endings are not simply the moment a client walks out the door for the last time; they’re a process. A transition. A relationship completing a

Starting therapy can feel like stepping into the unknown. It is a personal and sometimes challenging process, but it can also be deeply rewarding.

Touch is one of the first ways we experience the world — and often the last language we lose. Yet in an increasingly digital and disconnected age, physical contact has become something of a rarity, even a taboo. Aside from the debate we are about to enter in this post about touch in the therapy room, it feels to me that human connection and touch is changing, and the covid pandemic had a significant impact on our relationship with touch. It is almost crazy to look back at a t