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Writing about EMDR, person centred counselling, and what therapy is actually like. If there's something you'd like me to cover, do get in touch.
Compassion Fatigue: Signs, Causes and How to Recover
What happens when caring for people in pain starts to wear you down: the signs, how it differs from burnout and vicarious trauma, and the support that helps.
Counselling for Doctors: Confidential Support and Your Options
Why doctors put off getting help, what the GMC actually needs to know, and the confidential support available, from BMA counselling and Practitioner Health to private therapy.
Counselling for NHS Staff: Your Options and Their Limits
What support NHS staff can get through work, Practitioner Health and NHS Talking Therapies, where each falls short, and how to find counselling that fits.
Is Occupational Health Confidential? What Your Manager Will and Won't See
What happens to what you tell occupational health, what goes in the report to your manager, your rights over medical reports, and when separate support may suit you better.
NHS Burnout: Signs, Causes and Where to Find Support
How to recognise burnout as an NHS worker, why it builds up in healthcare, how it differs from stress and depression, and what support can help.
Nurse Burnout: Recognising It and Getting Support in the UK
A guide for UK nurses: how burnout shows up in nursing, why it builds, how it differs from compassion fatigue, and the support available from the RCN, charities and counselling.
Second Victim Syndrome: When Healthcare Staff Are Affected by Patient Harm
What healthcare staff can feel after a patient safety incident, why it is so common, how investigations can add to it, and where to find support, including EMDR.
Vicarious Trauma in 999 Call Handlers and Control Room Staff
Why police, ambulance and fire control room staff are at risk from trauma they hear but never see, what the figures show, the signs to look out for, and what helps.
How to Help Someone With PTSD: A Guide for Partners and Families of Emergency Services Staff
What partners and families of police, ambulance, fire and control room staff can do when the job comes home, and how to look after yourself too.
Police Counselling: Finding a Therapist Who Understands the Job
How police officers and staff can find a counsellor who gets the job: where to look, what to check, questions to ask, and what the first sessions are like.
Police Medical Retirement and PTSD: Leaving the Job and What Comes Next
What happens when PTSD ends a police career early: how ill health retirement works, the emotional side of leaving, and where to find support.
PTSD and Alcohol: Drinking to Cope in the Emergency Services
Why drinking to cope is common after hard jobs, how it affects PTSD and sleep, when to get help, and whether you can have EMDR if you drink.
What Is Moral Injury? Guilt, Betrayal and Counselling for Emergency Services Staff
Moral injury explained for police, ambulance, fire and control room staff: how it differs from PTSD, what it can feel like, and how counselling helps.
Does EMDR Work for Emergency Services Staff? What the UK Research Says
What NICE, NHS data and UK studies with police officers say about EMDR for emergency services staff, where the evidence is strong and where it is thin.
EMDR for Emergency Services Staff and First Responders: Trauma Therapy for Police, Ambulance, Fire and 999 Control Rooms
How EMDR therapy works with police, ambulance, fire and control room trauma, the UK routes to therapy, who pays, and what each route means for you.
EMDR for PTSD: How It Works, What the Evidence Says and Who It Helps
How EMDR therapy treats PTSD, what NICE and recent UK research say, what sessions involve, and how to tell whether it suits you or complex PTSD.
EMDR Side Effects, Hangovers and Shift Work: A Guide for Emergency Services Staff
What can happen after EMDR, how long it lasts, what the research says, and how police, ambulance, fire and control room staff can cope with shift work.
EMDR Without Talking About the Trauma: A Guide for Emergency Services Staff
How EMDR can work when police, ambulance, fire or control room staff can't or won't describe what they saw, including the Blind to Therapist protocol.
Is Counselling Confidential? A Guide for Emergency Services Workers Worried About Their Job
What stays private when police, ambulance, fire and control room staff seek therapy, where the legal limits are, and why the route you choose matters.
PTSD in Emergency Services Workers: The Signs, Why It Builds Up and When to Get Help
How police, ambulance, fire and control room staff can tell normal reactions to the job from PTSD, why it can surface years later, and what to do next.
Person Centred Therapy for Anxiety
Anxiety often rests on beliefs about being acceptable or safe. How person centred work goes at those, rather than managing the symptoms.
Person Centred Therapy vs ACT
Rogers' core conditions against ACT's acceptance and values work: how the two differ in philosophy and method, and which tends to suit whom.
Is Person Centred Therapy Effective?
What the research since Rogers actually shows, where person centred therapy holds up well, and where another approach may suit the difficulty better.
Person Centred Therapy for Eating Disorders
Working with the self-worth and control beneath disordered eating rather than the eating itself, and how that sits alongside specialist treatment.
Person Centred Therapy vs CBT
Non-directive exploration or structured skills work. How the two compare in method and evidence, how to access each on the NHS, and who suits which.
Person Centred Therapy for Low Self Esteem
Low self-worth usually forms in relationships and shifts in them too. How consistent acceptance in therapy works on self-critical patterns.
Why a Person Centred Approach is Important in Therapy
Person centred care across mental health and NHS services: the core principles, the skills it asks of practitioners, and the evidence behind it.
Person Centred Therapy: Advantages and Disadvantages
What the approach does well, from autonomy to the therapeutic relationship, and where its lack of structure becomes a genuine limitation.
Person Centred Therapy for Depression
A gentler approach to depression that sets no tasks and does not challenge your thinking. What it looks like in practice, and what it asks of you.
Person Centred Therapy for PTSD
A non-directive option for those who find revisiting trauma too much. What it offers for PTSD, and where EMDR or trauma-focused CBT may suit better.
Person Centred Therapy for Trauma
Healing through relationship rather than technique. How person centred work approaches single-incident and complex trauma, and who it tends to suit.
EMDR Therapy or Person Centred Therapy - Which Is Right for Me?
Structured trauma processing or a slower relational approach: how the two differ in pace and focus, who each suits, and whether to combine them.
Person Centred Therapy for Bereavement
Grief without stages to move through or tasks to complete. How person centred counselling makes room for loss as you actually experience it.
Person Centred Therapy for Loneliness
Loneliness can persist in company. How the therapeutic relationship itself becomes the starting point for reconnecting, rather than social skills work.
Person Centred Therapy and Attachment Theory
How Bowlby's attachment patterns show up in the therapy room, and why Rogers' core conditions do relational repair he never framed that way.
Strengths and Weaknesses of Person Centred Therapy
An even account of both: where the approach's trust in the client is its strength, and where the absence of structure leaves real gaps.
How Long Does Person Centred Therapy Last?
There is no fixed number of sessions, and you decide when to stop. What shapes the length, whether short-term work helps, and how endings are handled.
EMDR Therapy for Narcissistic Abuse
Why the trauma of gaslighting and coercive control outlasts the relationship, and how EMDR works on the beliefs about yourself it left behind.
How does it work? An EMDR therapy session example
A worked example of a single EMDR session, from setting the target through processing to closing down, so you know what the hour actually involves.
EMDR Therapy for Phobias
Phobias often trace back to a specific memory. How EMDR works on that memory rather than through graded exposure, and what the research shows.
EMDR Therapy for Eating Disorders
The link between trauma and disordered eating, how EMDR is used alongside specialist eating disorder care, and what the evidence currently supports.
EMDR Therapy for OCD
Where OCD has a trauma component, EMDR may help. How it differs from exposure work, what the research supports so far, and who it tends to suit.
EMDR Therapy for Anxiety
How EMDR targets the memories underneath anxiety rather than the symptoms, what sessions involve, and how it compares with medication and CBT.
EMDR Therapy for Depression
When depression has roots in earlier experience, EMDR can target those memories. Who it suits, what the evidence shows, and how it sits with medication.
Can EMDR Therapy Online be effective?
How bilateral stimulation works over video, what the research shows against in-person sessions, and when remote EMDR may not be the right fit.
How Many Sessions of EMDR are Needed?
Single-incident trauma often takes three to six sessions; complex trauma far longer. What shapes the number, with Liz Frings, BACP registered.
What is the EMDR therapy process?
The eight phases in order, from history taking and resourcing through desensitisation and installation to the body scan and re-evaluation.
How long does EMDR therapy take?
What sets the timeline: the eight phases, single-event against complex trauma, and why progress is better judged by change than by session count.
EMDR for ADHD
EMDR doesn't treat ADHD itself; it works on the trauma that often sits alongside it. How the two connect, with Liz Frings, BACP registered.
EMDR for Autism
Sensory adaptations, pacing and communication differences that make EMDR workable for autistic adults, without treating autism as the thing to fix.
Children and Young People: EMDR Therapy for Kids
How EMDR is adapted for children and teenagers, the parent's role in sessions, and what to expect at different ages. Written for parents weighing it up.
EMDR Therapy Vs Talk Therapy
EMDR doesn't ask you to talk through the detail. How that differs from traditional talking therapy and CBT, and what each approach does better.
EMDR Vs IEMT Therapy
Both use eye movements, but their theory and practice differ. How EMDR and Integral Eye Movement Therapy compare, and what that means for choosing.
EMDR vs Trauma Focused CBT
TF-CBT asks for homework and a trauma narrative; EMDR does not. How the two differ in method and pace, and who each suits. Liz Frings, BACP registered.