Haiku Therapy
In the year before the pandemic, the year of my Wild Therapy training, I wrote lots of haiku. I wrote for myself and I took part in a haiku writing group online...
Category: therapy
Lock-down can be tough, and lock-down can be an opportunity
How are you doing in these unusual times? My dreams have been particularly vivid since lock-down started: old memories finding their way to the surface and invi...
Online Therapy
I have always seen clients both face to face and online. During the UK’s lockdown my practice went entirely online and now I’m back to working both ...
New Year, New You? How to Make Real Change
It’s that time of year again. We’re just in to the second week of January and many of us will have broken our New Year’s resolutions already. What’s going on, a...
Grief and Climate Change
In our Buddhist community, at the invitation of our local XR group, we dedicate one practice session each month to the living earth. In our most recent session ...
We have to go slow to go fast
We come to therapy when we want to change. Sometimes we are desperate to change, and that urgency makes complete sense; we feel awful and we want to feel better...
Why therapists should be clients
I’ve just returned to personal therapy. I’m confident this is a good thing for my clients, as well as for me personally. Being a client reminds me how it is for...
What is Wild Mind?
I’m half-way through my training in Wild Therapy. You may have seen me writing about the power of working outside before (here and here). We work outside a lot ...
Healing with Internal Family Systems
Read my new article on the Counselling Directory website, about healing with IFS – a research backed form of therapy: Healing with Internal Family Systems...
One thing you can do to improve your mental health
This is a piece about songlines, and about maps, and about one thing you can do to improve your mental health. A couple of weeks ago I was walking through a val...