The Importance of Humour in Mental Health Unless you are able to keep your head in the sand, have no television or internet access, you cannot have missed the presidential election campaign in the US. Though it is a a … Continue reading →
Feeling Stuck I have been doing therapy now since 1989, and one of the most frustrating thing for both me and my clients is when the occasions come up where it feels like the process is stuck. There is a … Continue reading →
Is Racism Ingrained In Our Psyche I think it is a responsibility of psychotherapists to be active in the sociological debates of the day. As an American born, British citizen, as well as being a psychotherapist, I am troubled by … Continue reading →
Be In The Now For those of you who are interested there are only 67 days until Christmas. Frustrating isn’t it, with advertising coming earlier and earlier we begin to think about what we are going to do for Christmas … Continue reading →
The Power of Music One of the things that gets asked of me in the training courses I run is why do I use music with my hypnotic sessions. Generally speaking I use it because it aids in the induction … Continue reading →
When is Research Not Research In the fields of hypnotherapy and psychotherapy there is a greater and greater demand that the work undertaken with clients is “evidenced based”. Now there are many ways to define evidence based, if for example, … Continue reading →
A New Group and a New City Sort Of In addition to my clinical and supervisionary practice, I have, since 1993, trained people to become hypnotherapists and from 1996 psychotherapists as well. I have always enjoyed both this responsibility and … Continue reading →
I Love My Body Because He Loves My Body Whilst trying to decide what to write about today, I cam across an article about a soap star who made said “I love my body because he loves my body. He … Continue reading →
Hypnotherapy and Relationship Therapy “A man’s got to know his limitations” this was a quote for the film Magnum Force which I believe was the second in the Dirty Harry series of films. The line always struck a chord with … Continue reading →
Grown Ups Don’t Behave Like That Or Do They When I was a boy, I was an emotional child. I took things very much to heart and I got wounded by the words of others. I can recall that when … Continue reading →
