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Current research into the microbiome of the gut and its relationship to the brain sheds light on the lifestyle-mental health links Merely a handful of years ago, most of us were told bacteria were bad. We now know we rely of bacteria to stay alive, we are not isolated beings, but symbiotic creatures who co-exist […]
The Ethical Framework for the Counselling Professions (2016) is published by the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BCAP) . A link to the complete document is provided at the end [1]. By its nature counselling can deal with sensitive information that the client is sharing with the practitioner. The client needs to be able […]
We all understand that we go into a therapeutic setting in order to achieve change, and many of us know that it does not always happen, so just what are the core conditions for change? Carl Rogers provides us with some of the answers. Carl Rogers was one of the pioneers of person-centred or humanistic […]
To understand the history of counselling, we begin with the realisation that human beings find a good deal of comfort in sharing their problems. Carl Jung, the father of analytical psychology, put it another way, “We are all in some way or other kept asunder by our secrets”[1], meaning that by keeping secrets, especially painful […]
You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do Carl Jung If we take Jung’s statement as a starting point, then counselling could be considered the bringing into alignment our thoughts, words and actions. Of course there are many different approaches and settings that assume the process of ‘counselling’ – but all are […]
There has been a spate of attacks on cell phone towers due to a coronavirus conspiracy theory. Engineers have been attacked verbally and physically, one stabbed, one falling ill with coronavirus after being spat at. What is causing this irrational behaviour? These are not normal times, with our lives disrupted in a way that hasn’t […]
Carl Rogers, was one of the foremost psychologists of the 20th century and a pioneer of the person-centred approach to counselling. He observed that the human personality is like a triangle made up of the real self, the perceived self, and ideal self[1].