Carl Rogers’ concept of an internal versus external locus of evaluation offers a useful way of understanding what happens when we lose contact with our own needs and begin to rely heavily on other people to tell us who we are and whether we are doing life ‘correctly.’ Although the […]
In May this year, I had a really enjoyable time attending the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy’s (BACP) 32nd Annual BACP International Research Conference, which was titled ‘Collaboration for a just society – Multidisciplinary research in counselling and mental health’. The conference took place in London and ran across […]
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 […]