Category: Counselling
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Counselling in Bradford on Avon
Bradford on Avon is a picturesque town in the heart of Wiltshire. It’s on the southern edge of the Cotswolds and is known for its vibrant history and beautiful stone buildings. The River Avon and the Kennet & Avon Canal both run through the heart of the town. There’s an array of unique shops, pubs…
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Gaming Addiction and Digital Technology: Impact on Mental Health
We’re all impacted… Do you think you are impacted by gaming addiction or overuse of technology? Maybe or maybe not, but we’re all probably aware of what a time-sink going online can be. It feels like 10 minutes but when we look at the clock two hours have flown by! Two hours we’ll never get…
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Finding Self Acceptance
Would you rather be someone else? If you’re not feeling happy with who you are right now, and wish you weren’t ‘you’ but someone else with better qualities, I get it! I’ve been there myself. Life can be a real struggle, a disappointment and seem to be so unfair at times when we feel we…
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The Counselling Journey
Counselling is a bit like going on a journey together… We start by building a safe place which will always be there when you need it. That’s the confidential space where we meet and the professional relationship built on trust, acceptance and caring between us. We learn what’s important for you – your destination –…
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What does good therapy look like?
Does Instagram sometimes make you cringe? I’ve been posting content on Instagram for nearly a year now @belgamlincounselling. The amount of mental health and therapy content on this popular social media channel is huge! Some of it is very, very good, but also I’m noticing a feeling of disquiet in me around content I’ve seen…
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A bridge to somewhere
A bridge takes us from one place to another, with more ease. If this basic wooden bridge wasn’t there I would either have to leap and hope for the best (probably not a good idea for me!) or scramble down and up a steep bank getting my feet wet in the process. This way takes…
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What colour are you feeling today?
I love a nice bit of colour! A garden in full bloom gives me a real lift. And I really admire people who can wear flamboyant colours; something I struggle to do but I’m working on it! Colours are like a language and have different cultural meanings. Colour can also describe how we feel inside.…
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Walk and Talk Therapy
Walk and talk therapy happens in the outdoors; the natural environment becomes the therapy room. I meet with clients at an agreed place in the countryside or an uncrowded outdoor space and we walk together and talk about what is important to the client. Since Covid, it has become a more popular means of connecting…
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Everybody’s talking at me
Everybody’s talking at me I don’t hear a word they’re saying Only the echoes of my mind ‘Everybody’s Talking’ is popular song made famous in the evocative film “Midnight Cowboy”. This tune has always stuck with me. It has started playing in my mind on occasions when I have felt ‘talked at’ for too long…
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Would you change?
To change or not to change ? The simple truth is, change is hard. This post starts to explore change as a process and how counselling fits in. How we ‘do life’ is often done in a very familiar and predictable kind of way. This gives us the comfort of knowing what to expect and…