Workshop 19th May 2012 For Counsellors, Psychotherapists & those in helping professions.
” Stress is the physical and psychological effects we experience as a result of the way we react to changes in the surrounding environment…” Pavel Stoyanov In this one day workshop, I would like to share and explore with participants, my own experiences and perspectives on working with clients who seek help and support with ...
Promoting Healthy Body and Mind – effects that stress has on the body. Article by Marion Leslie
In this article, my intention is to discuss what is often referred to as “mind/body connection”; in other words, the way the body responds to the way we think, feel and act. There are many ways the body can react to extreme stress: Back pain; Chest pain; Constipation or Diarrhoea; Insomnia; High Blood Pressure; ...
Workshop : Working with cancer – towards a new understanding
This workshop in St Albans aims to examine and discuss how counselling can be beneficial in ameliorating the distress evoked by a diagnosis of cancer and, through the treatment process. Including how therapeutic support can assist individuals and families in providing stable, effective support necessary to enhance coping and adjustment. It seems to me that ...
Breast cancer: therapist on the other side
This is an extract from an article originally publish in The Time on November 10, 2007, it is of particular interest and importance to me, both as a woman and as a Counsellor. Dr Galgut’s personal insight and experience as a patient having had Breast Cancer, offers other women with this disease, an opportunity to ...
About Counselling
Many people are finding out how effective counselling and psychotherapy can be for alleviating depression, anxiety and distress, for recovering from painful or traumatic experiences and losses, and for achieving personal development and change. The following is a definition of counselling by the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (1985): …people become engaged in counselling ...
