Therapy News & articles
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Happy Feet! The Benefits Of Foot Reflexology On Your Body
It’s time for you to take the weight off your feet and learn about the benefits of foot reflexology and the finer points of this ancient practice that dates back to the Egyptians. Have you ever considered the fact that your feet are so much more than just a limb or appendage attached to your…
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![Behind The Glass: - Living Life In A Slow, Cruel, Seemingly Self-Induced Purgatory]()
Behind The Glass: Living Life In A Slow, Cruel, Self-Induced Purgatory
I feel like I’m behind the glass, knocking on a large, thick window. Sometimes impassioned, irate, wanting to shatter the pane and step through into what is ahead of me. More often, I just glance through and watch, pathetically defeated, with nothing to offer, barely even any anger or drive to stir up, let alone…
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Therapist Ellie Harvey Talks About Group Therapy For Adults
My name is Ellie Harvey and I am a therapist and coach at HQ Therapy Rooms. As a practicing psychotherapist, and someone who has experienced different kinds of therapy, I believe that while personal therapy is greatly beneficial, there are some unique and profound qualities that group therapy can bring to our personal development. I…
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Why Join A Men’s Therapy Group? Rob Francis Outlines The Reasons
If you’re a man and thinking of engaging in counselling or psychotherapy, a men’s therapy group can be an excellent place to start. Men join therapy groups for many reasons, to work on all kinds of experiences and themes, as they do in starting individual therapy. These can include things like the experiences that we…
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Leveraging The Connection Between Diet & Its Effect On Mental Health
It’s no secret that a healthy diet leads to a healthier body. A well-balanced diet and regular exercise help keep us fit and healthy. However, recent studies seek to establish a scientific link between mental health and diet. For example, the connection between struggling with anxiety and depression and having a poor appetite, as well…
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![When Love Hurts How Couples Can Get Stuck in a Dance of Distress]()
When Love Hurts: How Couples Can Get Stuck in a ‘Dance of Distress’
What do you do and who do you turn to when love hurts? Most of us seek a close, committed, loving relationship; someone who is there for us when we need them, someone who can respond to us when we require close connection and with whom we can confide and share our feelings and concerns.…
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![Searching for Fireflies & Sufism With Integrative Psychotherapist Salvo La Rosa]()
Searching for Fireflies & Sufism With Integrative Psychotherapist Salvo La Rosa
Welcome to the second instalment of our ‘On the Couch’ series, My name is Melanie Cox and we have the pleasure of talking to Salvo La Rosa, who is a qualified therapist specializing in integrative psychotherapy, with an added personal interest in Sufism. Salvo has recently hosted a workshop at the CCPE called ‘Searching for…
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How Do You Love Someone? Couples Counsellor & Psychotherapist Candy Newman Asks The Big Question
So how do you love someone? It seems like a very simple question, but when someone asks ‘how do you know you love someone?’, it evokes an answer that will be totally unique to your own self and the answer can be very complex. Everyone is different when it comes to addressing their role in…
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Know Thyself And Become Who You Are – True Wisdom Is Knowing What You Do Not Know.
Socrates said that “To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom” (Latin translation – Nosce te ipsum ac fias qui es“; however, this is easier said than sensed. For nearly 2 years, many of us who were living through the Covid 19 pandemic in the land of lockdown had to retreat to our homes and,…
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Reflective Practice Workshops for Therapists: Two participatory workshops with psychotherapist Joe Moran
This Spring, psychotherapist, supervisor and facilitator Joe Moran will be offering two CPD, reflective practice workshops for therapists held over respective weekends in May and July at HQ Therapy Rooms in Haggerston, East London. These welcoming and experiential workshops welcome experienced and graduate counsellors and psychotherapists, as well as therapists-in-training in the second year and…
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![Bodywork As An Adjunct To Talk Therapy Max Mora]()
Bodywork As An Adjunct To Talk Therapy
One of my favourite quotes is from the Zen Buddhist teacher Shunryu Suzuki in his book Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind. He writes, “Our body and mind are not two, and not one.” What he’s talking about is the inextricable connection between body and mind. They are not two discrete manifestations, to be handled separately. But…
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![A Recovering Addict Discovers Clearmind Awakening Workshop]()
A Recovering Addict Discovers The Clearmind Awakening Workshop
This is the story of a recovering addict called Paul and his experience with the Clearmind International Awakening workshop, a life-altering invitation to a deeper, richer experience of self, through the transformative power of authentic, vulnerable connection. The Clearmind international institute offers speaker series events, personal growth workshops, a counsellor training program and a personal…
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![The Weekend University Making Psychology Accessible]()
The Weekend University: Making Psychology Accessible
It’s called The Weekend University (TWU), and its aim as an organisation is to make the most important ideas in making psychology accessible to a wider audience. We believe that a great deal of human suffering is unnecessary and caused because we don’t properly understand the human mind, and how it works. Therefore, by making…
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![How To Deal With Uncertainty In An Uncertain World]()
How To Deal With Uncertainty In An Uncertain World
The question that I’m sure many of us have been asking ourselves regularly in recent times is ‘how do we deal with uncertainty?’ Especially in a world that feels like it has radically changed over the past 2 years. The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and the resulting stress and anxiety caused in our everyday lives, as…
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![Healthy Eating Plans New Years Resolution Tips You Can Stick To]()
Healthy Eating Plans: New Year’s Resolution Food Tips You Can Stick To
When it comes to healthy eating plans there are few people more well placed than Rowena Humphreys to share knowledge on how to maintain a healthy diet. And not only eat well but still enjoy cooking and helping get more plants (vegetables, fruits, grains and beans) on your plate. Which in turn results in improving…
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Christmas Stress & Anxiety: How To Cope During The Festive Period
Christmas can be a time of magic and wonder for children, but for some of us, the festive period can also be a time of Christmas stress and anxiety. This was amplified in the past by the Covid-19 pandemic and the lockdown measures that were put in place, affecting all of us, along with the…
