The Core Conditions for Change

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 […]

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A Short History of Counselling

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 […]

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What is Counselling?

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 […]

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The Seduction of the Conspiracy Theory

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 […]

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