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Moments of Mindfulness Within Therapy

  • 1st Jun 2021
  • Margaret Landale

Our bodies are often way ahead when it comes to attuning with clients. How can we use mindfulness practice within sessions to consult our somatic awareness and connect with clients’ unspoken feelings? Margaret Landale, a specialist in stress-related and psychosomatic disorders, shares a moment of mindful attention as it unfolds…

Sexual Violence 1/5: Challenging the Myths

  • 28th May 2021
  • Erene Hadjiioannou

Myths about sexual violence are as rife as sexual violence itself – and can easily obstruct therapy. In the first part of a new series, Erene Hadjiioannou, author of a forthcoming textbook, addresses common misconceptions and explains why therapy must engage with internalised myths as well as survivors’ truths.

Working with Avoidant Attachment: Critical Internal Objects

  • 19th May 2021
  • Linda Cundy

When our clients are tortured by self-criticism, we need to step in to protect them. In her penultimate blog about supporting highly defended clients, Attachment-based psychoanalytic psychotherapist Linda Cundy explores our relationships with our punitive superegos – and suggests some ways therapists can help clients to internalise a different kind of voice.

Nature Photography in Grief Work

  • 14th May 2021
  • Sisi Burn

How can taking photos of nature help clients to process grief? Following a sudden bereavement, professional photographer and transpersonal arts counsellor Sisi Burn started taking walks with her camera. The result was a powerful and transformative dialogue with herself – an approach that could be accessible to any client with a cameraphone.

Why Walking Therapy?

  • 12th May 2021
  • Lara Just

At first, the pandemic forced therapy online. Now, it is encouraging us to step outdoors. Ecopsychotherapist Lara Just has been meeting clients on Hampstead Heath and in rural locations for years. As we continue to mark Mental Health Awareness Week, with its 2021 theme of ‘nature’, the founder of The Walking Therapist recalls how a forest path provided just the challenge one client needed.

Ecotherapy: Starting the Journey

  • 10th May 2021
  • Sheila Pope

Many have rediscovered a deep connection with nature during the pandemic, as the theme of this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week attests. But what is it like to start offering therapy outdoors? From tripping over tree roots to stumbling across transformative metaphors, counsellor Sheila Pope shares her – and her clients’ – journey into ecotherapy.

SHADES of Life as Systemic Practice 5/5: Calling all Therapists!

  • 7th May 2021
  • Sonya Welch-Moring

How do we move from talking about colour, power and inequality to taking action? Concluding her vital series on exploring colour dynamics, systemic therapist and Ancestral Constellations practitioner Sonya Welch-Moring reflects on her own journey through exhaustion to re-engagement with the ‘inclusive bridging’ work of her SHADES Circles – and calls on every therapist to identify one small step they can take, today, towards changing the system.

Birth Trauma: What Are We Missing?

  • 5th May 2021
  • Kate Foster

Unresolved birth trauma can lead to clients presenting with depression, anxiety and attachment issues – years, and even generations, after the event. As we mark Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week and World Maternal Mental Health Day, Kate Foster, a psychotherapist and former manager of an NHS perinatal counselling service, explains why therapists shouldn’t confine our curiosity about birth experiences to the perinatal period.

Leading Clinicians Talk Crisis and Recovery: Free PESI UK Mental Health Awareness Summit

  • 4th May 2021
  • Blog Editor

What do grief work, relational neuroscience and the latest advances in trauma therapy tell us about the mental health impact of Covid-19 – and how we might help individuals and communities to heal? Next week, PESI UK will be asking Bessel van der Kolk, Julia Samuel, Daniel Siegel and Janina Fisher as part of a free, three-day summit for Mental Health Awareness Week.

SHADES of Life as Systemic Practice 4/5: Examining Whiteness

  • 30th Apr 2021
  • Sonya Welch-Moring

In 2017, a group of white therapists came together to explore ‘whiteness’. The group soon gained the interest of people from many different backgrounds. In the penultimate part of her series on exploring colour dynamics, Sonya Welch-Moring describes how her pioneering SHADES Circles are taking forward the task of creating space for ‘uncomfortable and difficult conversations’.