May 2021

I thought inhibition was ‘bad’?: Therapeutic restraint as a path to the self

Avoiding and repressing feelings is ultimately not helpful. Learning to face our feelings and gaining confidence in our ability to manage them is a life skill. Therapy can help you do this if feelings are particularly tough. If you’ve experienced counselling or psychotherapy, you’ll be aware that there is an emphasis on expressing and allowing […]

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Here and Now: the timeless, powerful and effective Gestalt teaching

Often reframed  as mindfulness, acceptance, focussing or compassion focused therapy, and having borrowed from buddhism, Zen, Reichian therapy, the Gestalt practice of starting where we are has retained its power for nearly 60 years, for centuries if we acknowledge that this is pre-psychoanalytic. Basic counselling training teaches counsellors how to provide a safe space: on

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