Jun 12, 2019 | Addiction & Mental Health, Continuing Care, Counselling, Trauma
Emotional sobriety can be a difficult concept to understand. It essentially means to be able to face and deal with all the negative emotions that were ignored or covered up when using alcohol or drugs. These feelings can potentially act as triggers with may lead to...
Mar 21, 2019 | Addiction & Mental Health, Continuing Care, Counselling, Family Support, Relationships
It may be easy to understand the concept of ‘supporting’ someone. We have all been supportive to many people and situations in our lives. For example, we support our child’s first show and tell by being there and listening to their presentation with a smile on our...
Oct 10, 2018 | Counselling
I have heard thousands of times stories of people who refuse mental and emotional support because they’ve had a bad experience with a therapist. What I know to be true is that most people struggle through life thinking they can “handle it” on their own, only to find...
Sep 22, 2018 | Addiction & Mental Health, Counselling
With the expansion of modern technologies, an increasing number of people have been seeing the benefits of online counselling. Some of the evident benefits of e-counselling for many people include the convenience, the range of choices and services provided, and the...
Sep 1, 2015 | Counselling
Do your research! It is true, there are many people in the world who despite advertising “excellent services” “best counselling practice” “rated number 1” they are terrible at their jobs. Terrible. If you want to find a good counsellor put some elbow grease into it....
Dec 30, 2013 | Counselling
At its worst, depression can be a frightening, debilitating condition. Millions of people around the world live with depression. Many of these individuals and their families are afraid to talk about their struggles, and don’t know where to turn for help....