by Katie | Jan 9, 2023 | Parenting
A little while ago a colleague and close friend of mine told me that she’d just completed a ‘love bombing’ weekend with her 10 year old daughter. “A what?” I replied, wondering whether she’d been on some kind of new age camping trip. Of course it was nothing of the...
by Katie | Dec 7, 2022 | Anxiety, General Psychology, Mental Health & Therapies, Parenting
Emotional-based school avoidance is on the increase. The latest Government statistics show that the percentage of ‘persistent absentees’ (missing 50% of schooling) has increased every year from 2015/2016 to 2020/2021. In primary schools, there was a 0.4% increase to...
by Katie | Nov 21, 2022 | Anxiety, Mental Health & Therapies, Relationships, Trauma
Book Recommendation: ‘DBT skills workbook for teens: a fun guide to manage anxiety and stress, understand your emotions and learn effective communication skills’ By Teen Thrive: Foreword by Kristen Dahlin, DBT psychologist. History of DBT Dialectical...
by Katie | Oct 24, 2022 | General Psychology
We all have mental health: feeling a range of emotions from joy, relief, pride to fear, disappointment to anger. Sometimes, our mental health consumes us: paralysing anxiety or even clinical depression. It is very easy to feel alone; nobody has ever felt the way we...
by Katie | Oct 13, 2022 | General Psychology
Beating the Stigma World Mental Health Day has been running for thirty years, beginning in 1992 by The World Federation for Mental Health. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has been an active supporter and campaigner. This year’s focus on 10th October was: ‘make...