Elpis Counselling Associates

On a much cheerier note than the blog I posted earlier, I am so happy to announce that Elpis has its first associate counsellors!! Associates are qualified counsellors that I know professionally and are happy to sit under the Elpis umbrella. They now have their own page on the website – https://www.elpiscounselling.co.uk/associates/ – and are … Read more

Sky Blue Education – Possible Scam

**I have just changed the name of the company in this blog as it has been pointed out to me that the company at issue is ‘Sky Blue Education’ and not Blue Sky Education as was originally stating in this blog, so please be aware that Blue Sky Education are not the subject of this … Read more

Eating Disorder Chaos

I read with dismay this morning another article decrying the current state of treatment for people with eating disorders who are being referred on from GP’s. I have pasted a link to the article below: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/mar/22/i-worry-my-young-patients-will-die-uk-eating-disorder-services-not-fit-say-gps The article states that 60% of GP’s are worried that the patients they refer for treatment for an eating … Read more

Footballing Hope?!?

Yesterday was a day when the mainstream media was focussed to a large degree on an example of how toxic masculinity and narcissism to a probably disordered level, can negatively impact on everything around it. Today, I would like to draw attention to an article on the BBC website which gives me some hope regarding … Read more

Serotonin or Out?

An interesting article in the Guardian again t’other day caught my eye and happily distracted me from the rest of the news. Link to it is below: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/mar/14/the-great-serotonin-debate-do-depression-treatments-work-by-boosting-the-happy-hormone It makes the rather wonderful point that even though people have been prescribed and prescribing SSRI anti-depressant medication for decades, we still have no clue whatsoever how … Read more

Wisdomous Words – Grief

I talk about writing a book a lot. I might have even mentioned it on a blog or two in the past. It is something I have always wanted to do and something that I have always felt I have it in me to do as well. When I was younger, my main issue was … Read more

Importance of Peer Support for Psychotherapists and Counsellors

‘It’s terribly important for group therapists to become members in group therapy because you learn so much about yourself, receive feedback from others on how you relate to others, how you come across interpersonally to people…Thirty-five years ago, myself and others started a therapy group for psychiatrists. We later accepted psychologists. It has been going … Read more

Sea Squirts – A Study in Depression and Anxiety…..

I am currently listening to an excellent podthing series based on the work of Oliver Sacks, a neurologist who some people might know from his rather awesome book, ‘The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat’. He was also the person Robin Williams played in the film ‘Awakenings’. That film used Oliver’s work with … Read more

Sweet Dancer

I was going to put all of this in one blog, but the Happy Monday blog took on a life off its own somewhat, hence, two blogs! One of the articles I refer to in the previous blog is about a CAMHS consultant who has left her role as she struggled to work within what … Read more

Another Happy Monday

Hullo and happy Monday. Unless you are a Liverpool or Burnley football fan. I would imagine today is far from happy if you are! Anyway, I digress… What has inspired todays, ‘vaguely linked to psychology stuff’ rant today I hear you ask… Well, here I go! I have read a few articles over the last … Read more