Psychotherapy

If we look around at the situation now with respect to the pandemic, the moment seems unique. We feel a sense of possibility, and maybe even new direction.

This is the third blog in my series on "finding a new direction for my life" as we slowly begin to emerge from the pandemic and from lockdown. In this post we look at the importance of resilience as we go through this process of…

There are times in life when we specifically need to search for a new direction for our lives. Often associated with major life transitions , these are times when we quite simply need to find something in our lives that works better for us than…

This is a short post this week, but it starts to consider something of deep importance for us at this unique point in time, namely, the search for a new direction.

"Improving your self esteem" is a subject that's always important and relevant, but it takes on even greater meaning in the midst of our current lockdown.

Sometimes, breaking out of a rut is very important. It's a piece of psychological work that you just have to do to stay true to who you really are. And during COVID, we can all fall into some pretty deep ruts.

When it comes to our experience of the COVID-19 pandemic, the vast majority of us are "living with loss". The experience of living through COVID-19 and the pandemic has led to pretty significant losses for very many of us, and yet we may not be…

"Keep on hoping" is the buzzword or mantra of this time of lockdown. Yet, when we can makes our hope concrete or solid, for ourselves or for others, it genuinely changes the way we feel.

As we saw in Part 1 of this series, hiding depression genuinely is a thing that we can end up doing. But, where does it hide, and what does that do to us? Depression can often appear in hidden forms, and, in a substantial number…

Hiding depression? Is that a thing? Do people actually do that? The truth is that we certainly can do that, and sometimes, we can even hide our depression from ourselves.