being estranged from family members can feel like failure

Length of thick rope running from side to side cut in the middle and frayed at both open ends

If an estrangement is part of your life story, consider seeing a therapist to discuss it. Counselling can help you move forward and heal.

in counselling, one size does not fit all

Sepia image of arms stretching upwards

In the development of therapy from Freud onwards, foundational mantras were formulated by old, wealthy, white men of immense privilege.

the destructive power of conditions of worth

Face glitched vertically in slices

Everyone is impacted upon by conditions of worth but most people are completely unaware of them – what they are, how they affect us.

demedicalising difference

Groups of people with shared interests or aims. Concept of the diversity of people's talents and skills associated with different brains.

I have been reflecting on the value of transposing ‘recognition’ in preference to ‘diagnosis’ in relation to neurodivergencies, in the context of avoiding the ‘othering’ … read more