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...
by Katie | Sep 19, 2022 | General Psychology, Trauma
Definitions of trauma Within the therapeutic professional community, our understanding of trauma has progressed dramatically in the last 20 years. The likes of Gabor Mate, Dan Siegal and Bessel van der Kolk have deeply enriched our understanding of how trauma...
by Katie | Sep 19, 2022 | ASD, Looked After & Adopted Children, Occupational Therapy
Sensory processing Sensory processing is the way our nervous system receives messages from our senses, turning them into motor or behavioural responses. The ability to receive and process sensory information from our environment can impact attachment, speech and...
by Katie | Sep 19, 2022 | General Psychology
Book recommendation: “Humankind: A Hopeful History” by Rutger Bregman Elective pessimism It is easy to be pessimistic about humanity in a world of fake news, social media trolling, climate change, the war in Ukraine and floods in Pakistan. We seem to gravitate to bad...