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If stress has become a part of your life and you’re finding it increasingly difficult to focus, these strategies will help you cope with stress and form healthy self-help mechanisms.

New year, new hopes, new challenges. Whatever 2021 has in store, these tips will help you start 2021 on a positive note, staying mindful of your emotional wellbeing.

Dealing with the financial pressures of Christmas is difficult every year, let alone in 2020. Here’s what you can do to avoid feeling overwhelmed and enjoy the spirit of the holidays.

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The COVID-19 crisis has placed unprecedented pressure on the UK’s healthcare system, causing record rates of stress, anxiety, and depression among first responders.

Many parents wonder, however, whether online counselling for teenagers is a good idea. There is some growing evidence that consulting a qualified mental health professional over the internet could be quite useful for teens.

Family therapy (otherwise known as Family and Systemic Psychotherapy) enables family members, couples and others who care about each other to explore difficult thoughts and emotions in a safe environment. Its main aim is to allow you to better understand each other’s experiences and make useful and meaningful changes to your relationships.

We often think of childhood as a time of carefree play and enjoyment. Whilst this is true for the most part, many children are also vulnerable to the same emotional and mental health issues that adults face.

Despite being known as “the most wonderful time of the year” Christmas can often be a time filled with loneliness, sadness and negativity for many. It can be especially stressful if you live with a mental health disorder.

Child psychology focuses on the mind and behaviour of children from prenatal development right the way through to adolescence. This particular branch of psychology deals not only with how children develop physically but also how they grow mentally, emotionally and socially as well.

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

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.

In my work as a psychotherapist and my life as a mother, I have witnessed the long and short term effects of bullying.

A recent report by the NSPCC has revealed that the number of young people in Britain seeking counselling specifically over exam stress has increased by 200% in recent years, a truly staggering amount.