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Have you decided that Skype therapy may be the ideal solution for you but don’t have the time to find a qualified or suitable therapist? Then we can help.

Skype therapy brings with it many advantages; you don’t have to leave home, can schedule a call at any time of day to suit you and your counsellor and it doesn’t matter how far apart you are.

Many issues that are usually dealt with via face-to-face counselling can be dealt with via Skype

As recently as twenty or thirty years ago a great many of the people would retire from the jobs that they took early on in life. Long service awards were regularly given out for twenty, thirty and forty years of service. People were retiring on pensions that had accumulated over decades. Since the turn of the century this type of working pattern has declined. The reasons behind this are many, but many of them will have to do with self actualisation.

EMDR Stands for Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing. It is possibly one of the most groundbreaking therapies to be discovered and developed in the last thirty years. Discovered by Francine Shapiro in 1988, it is now recognised as an evidence based treatment by the most reputable of therapists globally.

Cognitive behavioural therapy also known as CBT is a therapy that focuses on life situations, how we think about them and our consequential actions and associated behaviour. Cognitive relates to our thoughts and feelings and behaviour relates to the actions that come as a consequence of those thoughts.

Mindfulness based therapies started off as therapies that were implemented to prevent relapse in people suffering with depression. Breathing, meditation and mindfulness exercises are used in the therapy environment to help the client manage negative thoughts. This type of therapy is often referred to as MCBT or mindfulness based cognitive therapy. Using these tools, the depression therapist can then teach the client how to break away from the negative thought patterns that they are experiencing.

It is usually a major life event that prompts a person to think about counselling. We’ve all heard about it. The word gets passed about freely in the media, on television shows and in the media. We hear about it in schools and even at our local doctor’s surgery. It is easy to form an idea about what counselling is. But do we really know?

Mention the word psychotherapy and for many people the name of Sigmund Freud pops up. Psychotherapy has come a long way since the days of Freud whose historic figure reminds us of the evolution of this practice.

We look at the stats about mental health during and after pregnancy, Emma Stone talks about CBT and Brad Pitt opens up about his divorce and finding himself with the help of therapy.

We take a look at what the Heads Together campaign is all about, a new initiative from the BBC called #1in4 and how you can start to slowly relieve your stress levels right now

This week we explore some of Prince Harry’s coping strategies for dealing with grief and take a closer look at the stats about just how many kids suffer from mental health issues - and the lack of support available to help them.

This week we hear from both Tom Jones and Rio Ferdinand about grief and how talking helped them, as well as the mindful benefits of baking and some of the issues facing university students.

Rio Ferdinand speaks out and the royals launch a mental health campaign

Princess Diana's story is being used to teach children about mental health, the number of emotionally distressed youngsters is on the rise and a look at how you can teach mindfulness today.