Scared to Try
What are you scared to try? I trained as an actor. I went to drama school for three years and then spent the next ten years pursuing a career as an actor. In many ways, I failed to achieve what I set out to do. The reason? Fear. I can appreciate now how much I got...
Therapy for Business
Therapy for business? Why would a business work with me, a therapist, for dealing with their work-related issues? First of all, let's get the obvious out of the way - you're a person, an individual. If you are the business or part of a larger team you're still dealing...
Comparisons
Comparisons. One of the common issues that I work on with clients is with making comparisons - comparing themselves with others. That’s not the issue. It is the conclusions that we draw from that comparison that is the issue. All too commonly it is yet another...
Change My Mind (Metaphors)
It’s very common that at some point in our life we encounter a person who changes the way we think about something. It may happen regularly of course. The more open we are then the more we are likely to allow these new influences to change us. Metaphors were one such...
Planning is helpful, but…
Planning is a useful and helpful skill. It gives us the opportunity to prepare for a variety of outcomes or possibilities that may be different from what we might expect. There’s a phrase that I became aware of a few years ago - “No plan survives first contact with...
Anxiety
Anxiety - a mental condition characterised by excessive apprehensiveness about real or perceived threats. Even as therapists, no matter what the approach, we never know exactly what it is that is going to make the difference. For some the process is the important...
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