Counselling Articles

Validation is not Agreement

Sometimes my counselling clients, especially in relationship counselling sessions, get confused about what validation is, and what it isn’t. Often, the belief is that if the person validates the way the other person is feeling, […]

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Counselling Articles

The Power of Validation

I’ve worked with hundreds of couples from all walks of life, naturally, they come to me for relationship counselling because things aren’t going as well as they would like. In pretty much all of these […]

Counselling Articles

What I learned from our hens

During the COVID lockdowns, there was a resurgence in keeping chickens in backyard coops, and this experience highlighted a few things for me. We were one of the very many families that went out and […]

Counselling Articles

Stress relief a walk in the park

High-stress levels are a major contributor to unhappiness and can be a big obstacle to a better relationship. Stress leads us to be more emotional, and to the well-known Fight, Flight, Freeze, or Fawn response […]