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Therapy and Yoga (4/5): Exploring Yoga with ‘Talk Therapy’ Clients

  • 22nd Mar 2024
  • Cleandra Waldron

There are mental health risks as well as benefits associated with yoga. How might ‘talk therapists’ support clients to explore new psychological corners of a long-established yoga practice – as well as helping novice clients to avoid inadvertent triggering or ‘dissociation in disguise’? In the penultimate part of her series, Counselling Psychologist and former yoga teacher Cleandra Waldron shares some useful general questions, and specific cautions for practising yoga when there is a history of childhood abuse.

‘Waiting, Waiting, Waiting’: Non-Verbal Communication in Child Therapy

  • 7th Feb 2024
  • Victoria Nicolodi

What concepts support the child therapist, and what qualities are called upon, when working with non-verbal communication? As we continue to mark Children’s Mental Health Week 2024 with its theme of ‘My Voice Matters’, psychoanalytic psychotherapist and clinical psychologist Victoria Nicolodi describes a delicate process that draws on observation, translation, our capacity for play – and a great deal of patience.

Individual Therapy with the Couple in Mind 4/6: Sex in the Long Run

  • 19th Aug 2022
  • Anne Power

Learning to talk with a partner about sex and intimacy is an important skill, and one we can help clients develop through individual therapy. In the fourth part of her series, couples therapist, psychoanalytic psychotherapist and author Anne Power explores various challenges and transitions that couples may experience in their sexual lives together – including aging, parenthood, and legacies of child sexual abuse – and shares how she learned as a therapist to broach the topic of sex.

Working with Survivors of CSA: The Essentials

  • 15th Jun 2021
  • Christiane Sanderson

The trauma of childhood sexual abuse leaves survivors with unique and complex needs. Ahead of a PESI UK live webcast this week, specialist, author and trainer Christiane Sanderson shares the core principles, models and frameworks that can support therapists of all modalities to practise safely and effectively, with understanding of the past and hope for the future.

Sexual Violence 2/5: Disconnection and Connection

  • 4th Jun 2021
  • Erene Hadjiioannou

Sexual violence can shrink our worlds and reconfigure our sense of self. In the second part of her series about working with survivors, Erene Hadjiioannou, author of a forthcoming textbook, discusses its impact on our ways of relating – and suggests how therapists might begin to support a search for the self amongst the trauma.

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.