With the Christmas season upon us, I thought it would be fun to revisit a best-selling self-help book of the 1980s: The Cinderella...

Forget Omicron, booster jabs and illicit Christmas parties, the conversation starter of the moment, said in excited, knowing tones has to...

"How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole." - C. G. Jung Behind loneliness,...

In her most recent book, Love of My Life:The Life and Loves of Freddie Mercury, the writer Lesley-Ann Jones sets out to explore the...

I thought it would be fun to write about one of my guilty pleasures, namely that social media staple, the therapy meme. Clever and...

Try to see it my way, do I have to keep on talking 'til I can't go on? While you see it your way, run the risk of knowing that our love...

I thought I would set myself a challenge to explore in less than a thousand words perhaps the most important question of all: what makes...

The death of Nick Kamen from cancer at just 59 has had me reflecting on his influence and legacy. Here was a man who burned brightly for...

There is one novel I find myself coming back to again and again, Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca. The opening dream sequence draws the reader...

When I started my training as a psychotherapist, a friend who had just qualified gave me a book they thought I would enjoy. That book was...

Back in in 1985, a long lost manuscript was discovered in the dusty archives of the Freud Museum in Hampstead, a final opus by the man...

The sepia photograph is of a young man in his early twenties. He stares out with youthful confidence; the white carnation he wears on his...

In my practice room, I have a framed photograph by a local Walthamstow artist called Paul Tucker which people often comment on. It is an...

The actor Rupert Everett was on the radio recently, talking about ‘the beaches of his youth’, those places we regress to when we feel a...

As the nights draw in and the shadows lengthen, the thin place between our world and the afterlife is said to open up allowing us to...

Everyone has a few questions as they start psychotherapy or counselling. Here are just a few of them: LONG TERM? SHORT TERM? OR A QUICK...

A plastic crown worn by the Notorious B.I.G for a photoshoot just days before his murder, has sold at Sotheby’s in New York at their...

Saturday the 28th November 1981 dawned chilly and overcast; a low, damp fog hung over Catalina Island, 85km off the southern coast of...

One of my earliest memories is of being photographed as a 2-year-old. It was a blustery day and I was standing in a neighbour’s garden,...

On Radio 2 this week, the Rev Kate Bottley was talking about how the coronavirus pandemic has brought her closer to her mother and...