Why does therapy work? How does change actually happen? These are questions I often find myself asking. I am currently undertaking my PhD and I keep coming back to these questions. If I state that I believe in the power of therapy, it could be considered a biased statement certainly. […]
There is a common assumption that therapy is something people engage in only when life has become unmanageable or when there are mental health challenges present. Many people wait until they are overwhelmed before seeking support and, as a result, therapy is imagined as a response to crisis or acute […]
Self-compassion has become a widely used term in psychotherapy and something I have mentioned regularly when writing these articles. At its core, it is less about doing something to oneself and more about how one comes into relationship with one’s own suffering. In contemporary psychology, Kristin Neff, an associate professor in educational […]
