I remember watching a fascinating counselling training presentation video from renowned trauma researcher, Dr. Bessel Van Der Kolk. The psychiatrist, author, researcher, and educator changed his thinking about how trauma affects us when he read […]
New research has found adopting the core precepts of Buddhism can potentially help reduce the effects of depression. The results were published last month in the open-access journal PLOS ONE with the team from Chiang […]
There’s been a fair bit of change at With a Little Help Counselling in recent times, all designed to improve your experience with us, and to better help meet your needs. The first big change […]
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, […]
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 […]
It’s been well-established that stress can take a serious toll on our physical health, now a study has found just how deep the benefits of getting on top of our stress can run. The North […]
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 […]
If you’re struggling to find happiness, maybe boosting your Vitamin D levels might help. A new study out of Finland has found a link between low Vitamin D levels and depression. The researchers from the […]
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 […]
I think most people would agree that the modern world is a fairly stressful place to live. I know, even as an adult, that there are always issues and situations that come up that present […]
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