Counselling/Therapy

This week we look at some tips for coping with changes in your life. In addition to giving tips, we look at some books by noted authors on the subject of change.

As therapists, we must be careful of believing too much in our clients. We need to be realistic too.

It is often hard to move, and here are some of the reasons why. Try to understand them, and you will find you understand yourself and your emotions better. Then you will find you adjust better!

What to look out for when you are uprooted, and moving to a totally new place.

Suicide needs to be treated as any other illness - get to the cause of the problem. Suicide needs to be treated as any other illness - get to the cause of the problem.

Help a sexually abused person to start facing normality again. Help them to see it was not their fault, help them with their nightmares, and help them to realise they have needs and are allowed to expect them to be me.

When behavior is actually measured, it can counter the lies we tell ourselves. Counselors are not dieticians, but they can help a client to see how they are kidding themselves when it comes to overeating. This is the second in a two part article.

So often, the presenting problem is merely a symptom of a deeper underlying cause. If your client has trouble losing weight, what could these issues be?

I have been in practice now for almost fifteen years, and in that time, one of the questions which has nagged me the longest is why people need a psychologist.

What is your job, when a woman walks into your office one day, telling you that her husband came home the previous day. He just said, "I don't love you anymore and I want a divorce"?