Lately I’ve been thinking about how often we want a clear path to follow. In therapy or in life. On the surface, therapy can seem like a specific, defined process. A client comes to therapy with an issue or something they’re not happy with, and working together the client and therapist find solutions and make changes so they can emerge from the other end. It is tempting to suggest there is a neat trajectory that the work can follow; a set of steps you can move through to reach the end. The...

Have you been told that if you want to change things you need to step outside your comfort zone? Did it make you wonder “Why would you step outside your comfort one- it’s comfortable there!” Well, you’ve got a fair point. What is the Comfort Zone? There are important reasons we’ve established our comfort zone and choose to stay in it a lot of the time. In the comfort zone we know what to expect. This means our brain can run largely on autopilot using familiar patterns to plan responses to...

Opening the news can feel overwhelming. Like you’re drowning in story after story of misery. The reel can scroll on forever, showing scenes of misery, anger, hopelessness. With more people having a smart phone in their pocket, it is easier than ever to check the news or catch up on events at any time of day. Gone are the days when we got the news in regulated time slots on the radio or tv, when a helpful presenter would tell us that was all the headlines for now. It's not surprising that...