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Taking flight - Moving on from counselling
A natural part of counselling, especially CBT, is that there is a definitive end point. A certain amount of sessions are agreed with...
Scott
May 29, 20252 min read
25 in and more to come
So here we are already at wee weekly counselling blog no.25! Since kicking things off in November, we’ve had a whole mix of topics from...
Scott
May 22, 20252 min read
The UK benefits system: cruelty is the point
Particularly in my volunteering I’ve worked with clients who are trying to navigate the UK benefits system, whether it’s that they’ve...
Scott
May 16, 20253 min read
What have pets ever done for us?
Animals have lived alongside humanity for thousands of years. About 14,000 years ago we domesticated dogs to help with hunting and...
Scott
May 8, 20253 min read
Trans rights under attack
If you’re part of the LGBT+ community or you know someone who is, you’ll know that there was a pretty important ruling last week. Under...
Scott
May 2, 20254 min read
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
Apr 18, 20252 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 11, 20253 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 3, 20253 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 28, 20252 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 21, 20252 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 14, 20252 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 7, 20252 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 28, 20252 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 21, 20252 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 14, 20252 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 7, 20252 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 31, 20252 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 24, 20252 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 17, 20252 min read
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