Even in our most difficult times of life when we are facing the greatest adversity we can discover that actually we have many and varied strengths that we used to help us. What if therapy started with what’s already working? One of the things I value most about Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) is its strengths-based approach. The will to survive and succeed is very strong and fundamental to humans. We have evolved to be extremely flexible and adaptable to many situations that’s...

Anxiety means worrying about something that might or might not happen and this causes unnecessary suffering.

Things getting tense on Teams? Heated in the Kitchen? Getting grief on the golf course? You may have noticed yourself and others getting a little frazzled in this bout of record-breaking heatwaves. Maybe you’re waking up feeling a bit tetchy or others around you may be a little irritable at home, at work or on the daily commute. The good news is that this is a normal reaction to heat. So, what is going on and what can we do about heat and stress? What the research says Heat increases...