Discover how psychometric assessments help clinicians understand mental and physical health, measure psychological symptoms and monitor therapeutic progress. Explore commonly used tools, including the PHQ-9, GAD-7 and PROMIS, and their role in evidence-based psychological care.
Measuring What Matters: Using Psychometrics to Assess Mental and Physical Health Read More »
Explore the powerful connection between nature and mental wellbeing. Discover how ecopsychology, forest bathing and nature-based therapies can reduce stress, support emotional healing and strengthen our relationship with the natural world.
Rooted in Nature: Why the Wild World Is Essential to Human Healing Read More »
Explore how trauma shapes behaviour, emotional responses and relationships through a psychoanalytic lens. Discover why curiosity, compassion and emotional safety are central to understanding and healing.
When Behaviour Tells a Story: Understanding Trauma Read More »
Explore Schizoid Personality Disorder through the Masterson Approach, examining the tension between connection and isolation, early relational experiences, and how psychotherapy can support emotional safety and meaningful relationships.
Schizoid Personality Disorder: Insights from the Masterson Approach Read More »
Alcohol, drugs and gambling can begin as sources of pleasure, excitement or social connection. Over time, however, they may become ways of escaping emotional pain, quietening an anxious mind, avoiding loneliness or temporarily becoming someone who feels more confident, powerful or free.
When Relief Becomes Repetition: Addiction, Intoxication and Self-Sabotage Read More »
Becoming a mother is often imagined as a time of immediate love, fulfilment and connection. For many women, however, the postnatal period can also bring exhaustion, anxiety, sadness, anger, guilt or a frightening sense of disconnection.
Postnatal depression affects approximately one in seven women following the birth of a baby. It may involve persistent low mood, loss of pleasure, irritability, hopelessness, difficulty sleeping even when the baby is asleep, feelings of worthlessness, or feeling disconnected from the baby and other people. From a psychodynamic perspective, becoming a mother can also awaken powerful feelings connected to a woman’s own experience of having been cared for.
Many men learn from an early age that strength means remaining in control, solving problems independently and continuing to function regardless of how they feel. Being dependable, capable and self-reliant can be genuine strengths. Difficulties arise when these qualities become rigid expectations: I should handle this myself. I should not need anyone. I just have to push through. Over time, the effort required to maintain this position can leave men feeling emotionally disconnected, exhausted or alone.
When “Pushing Through” Stops Working: Men, Emotions and Therapy Read More »
