Epictetus posited ‘It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters’. Here is a tool to help you to respond in helpful ways to life’s challenges; ‘The Coping Triangle’.

Would you like a simple tool to help you feel more in control and empowered on days when it feels like your mind is ruling your life?

Self-care and boundaries are game changers in moving through family celebrations, which can be fraught with complicated emotions.

There is no one way to grieve. Tonkin’s model of grief helps us to understand how we can continue to grow around our grief.

If you’re navigating grief, there are some evolving ideas around the stages of grief and how we heal, that you may find supportive.

Robert Neimeyer's meaning-making model of grief, and the Dual Process Model.

Exploring 4 Models: The Tasks of Morning, Growing around Grief, Making Meaning & The Stages of Grief

I will sometimes offer journalling to clients who resonate with writing, as a complementary activity alongside therapy. By writing down our thoughts and emotional experiences, we can ‘externalise’ them (get them out of our heads and out into the world).

Emotions come and go throughout the day, like traffic along a street. Sometimes though, an emotion sticks with us and may feel so intense we start to look for ways to manage or control it. This is where Emotion Regulation can help. 

A lot of worry, stress and anxiety comes from striving hard to fix or change things that are ultimately outside of our control. This can leave us feeling powerless and exhausted. 

Self-compassion is a supportive skill that can increase your wellbeing, reduce experiences of depression, anxiety and stress, and support a positive relationship with self.  

Your values are like a compass, guiding how you want to behave and act towards yourself, others and the world around you.

It is a skill to support you to make contact with the present moment, open up to the thoughts and feelings you’re experiencing, while choosing to consciously engage in the activity, or situation at hand.

Meditation can help you improve your focus, regulate your emotions, have more harmonious relationships, and more….