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Making room for grief
Grief is something that’s inevitable. We’re humans; we’re social beings. We build communities of people that we love and it’s distressing...
Scott
5 days ago2 min read
A.I. Counsellors? Thanks, I hate it.
Artificial Intelligence is everywhere right now. It’s being quietly added to the applications we use every day, and the Prime Minister...
Scott
Apr 113 min read
The 'S' Word
Content warning - In this post I talk about Suicide First Aid training and a bit about how we talk about suicide in the 21st century. If...
Scott
Apr 33 min read
Gathering the evidence - using an Activity Diary
As I’ve said in an earlier blog , what we do affects how we feel. That seems pretty obvious, right? Taking a dog for a walk or playing...
Scott
Mar 282 min read
Putting our experience under the microscope - The Five Factor Model
When we start counselling we are asked to pay more attention to our thoughts and what’s going on, but this can be quite a tricky thing to...
Scott
Mar 212 min read
Mental health in the workplace
Wherever we work, it takes up a lot of our time. If we’re spending most of our week in an environment that’s unhealthy for us, that...
Scott
Mar 142 min read
Understanding CBT - it’s as simple as A-B-C
One of my favourite things about CBT is how easy it can be to grasp the fundamental elements of it and how it works. In my first session...
Scott
Mar 72 min read
Who do you think you're talking to?
The nicest people can sometimes treat themselves terribly, beating themselves up inside about what might be the most trivial things. How...
Scott
Feb 282 min read
Low self-esteem and 'Rules for Living'
At the heart of low self-esteem is believing that the negative core belief we have about ourselves (The Bottom Line) is true. To get...
Scott
Feb 212 min read
Rumination, or "And another thing!"
We’ve all done it. We’re in the car or on the bus and we’re thinking about something that’s happened at work, over and over and over....
Scott
Feb 142 min read
For LGBT History Month 2025 - Mental Health and the LGBTQ+ community
February is LGBT History Month, so I thought I’d talk a little about mental health in the LGBTQ+ community from my own perspective as a...
Scott
Feb 72 min read
Schooldaze
I have to admit, when I left full-time education I thought that was it for homework. No more exams, no more essays, no more anything in...
Scott
Jan 312 min read
Managing our Worries
One of the biggest issues we can face with worrying is that we can sometimes have a huge list of things that we’re worried about that...
Scott
Jan 242 min read
I, Worrier.
I’ve talked in earlier blog posts about different kinds of worrying, and we might generally break that into two categories; "productive"...
Scott
Jan 172 min read
Self-care and what it isn't (or doesn't have to be).
“Self-care” is becoming quite commonplace in the media and we often see lots of articles now talking about the importance of taking a...
Scott
Jan 102 min read
New Years Nerves (or The Whole World on Our Shoulders)
Looking ahead to a new year can be difficult. There are a lot of things on the horizon that might be filling us with dread and anxiety....
Scott
Jan 32 min read
No comparison - recognising the good things about ourselves
This time of year we’re encouraged to reflect on how the last 12 months have gone for us. Friends and work acquaintances will be sharing...
Scott
Dec 27, 20242 min read
What we do and how we feel (or Beware the Blanket Fort)
The festive season can be full of anxiety and a time when we’re particularly rough on ourselves. Perhaps we think we should have achieved...
Scott
Dec 20, 20242 min read
Unhelpful thinking styles
A classic area of CBT is helping clients recognise and tackle unhelpful thinking styles. These are internal responses to things happening...
Scott
Dec 13, 20242 min read
Anger and irritability
We’re fully into the festive season and it seems every other shop in the Glasgow high street has at least one poor parent at the end of...
Scott
Dec 5, 20242 min read
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