Knowledge
Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD
Cognitive Processing Therapy aims to find the connections between our thoughts, our feelings and our behaviours in relation to how we process trauma experienced.
Psychology Articles
Articles and Guides To Help.
Learn more about the way our psychologists can help by reading our articles. We specialise in helping children, teenagers, and young adults understand the obstacles in their lives and build the skills needed to overcome them.
Self Improvement
Mindfulness And Positive Thoughts
Mindfulness is the practice of being fully present and engaged in the current moment, aware of your thoughts, emotions, and surroundings without judgement. It involves paying attention to your inner and outer experiences in a calm and accepting way.
Self Improvement
Interpersonal Effectiveness skills to prioritise your needs. The DEAR MAN approach
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) teaches that in any interpersonal situation, our priorities can be broadly divided into three categories: Objectives, Relationships, and Self-Respect.
Parenting
Understanding Psychoeducational Assessment for Children and Young People
A psychoeducational assessment, sometimes referred to as a learning assessment or diagnostic assessment, helps to understand an individual’s cognitive, academic, and developmental needs and provides strategies to support their learning.
Self Improvement
Three Tips for a Healthy Relationship with Video Games
Globally, around 40% of the population plays video games with some regularity. In some age brackets, it’s estimated to be as high as 85%. That’s a huge proportion, and it’s a big reason why discussions about video games, mental health, and addiction are often heated ones.
Knowledge
Eating Disorders – The Male Perspective
Most mental health conditions vary to some degree in terms of their prevalence across sex and gender. However, I’d wager that eating disorders carry with them a perception of gender disparity that far outstrips most other mental health conditions.
Self Improvement
Two Techniques for Cognitive Defusion
Are you becoming caught up in your thoughts? Thoughts are powerful. Your thoughts can change the way you feel, lead you to different actions, and dictate the course of your day.
Self Improvement
The Impact of Social Media on Body Image and Disordered Eating
Every time I write a blog about the dangers of social media use, I can feel myself age in real-time. I’m well aware that social media is disproportionately used by young people, and disproportionately complained about by people, like myself, who aren’t deemed young anymore.
Knowledge
The Language of Disordered Eating
If you’ve ever gone to a dog training class, you’ve likely heard the terms reinforcement and punishment before. Reinforcement is a pleasant outcome that makes a behaviour more likely, while punishment is an unpleasant outcome that makes a behaviour less likely.
Self Improvement
Three Tips for Better Sleep Health
For readers of the other blog I have written on sleep, you may have heard me use the term Sleep Hygiene as a treatment for some types of sleep disturbance. Today, I’ll be discussing what sleep hygiene is and how we can make use of it to achieve a more restful night’s sleep!
Knowledge
Why can’t I sleep? Two common causes of sleep disturbance.
Sleep is one of the few universal human experiences – we all need it, we all do it, and most of us wish we did it a bit more often than we do.
