Therapy Shorts – Safe Harbour Therapy and Coaching

Therapy Shorts 61: The Role of Thinking Parts in Mental Health

Explore therapeutic approaches to understanding the mind and personality, focusing on CBT and the multiplicity of thinking parts in recovery.

Therapy Shorts 60: After a Bad Breakup: Practical Steps That Actually Help

Navigate the emotional turmoil of breakups with effective strategies. Learn to stabilize, process, and rebuild your life after a breakup.

Therapy Shorts 57: Narcissistic and Codependent Relationships: Two Sides of the Same Wound

A clinical exploration of narcissistic and codependent relationships, how both stem from attachment wounds, and what healing through self-leadership requires.

Therapy Shorts 54: Your Childhood Is Still Running Your Life (You Just Don’t See It)

Discover how childhood experiences shape adult relationships, emotional regulation, attachment patterns, trust, and conflict styles — and how awareness creates change.

Therapy Shorts 53: Healing Requires Loneliness

Healing requires stepping into the loneliness we fear. Staying in familiar patterns only deepens suffering. This Therapy Short explores why silence becomes the space where identity, clarity, and self-trust return — and why choosing yourself, even when it hurts, is the beginning of real recovery.

Therapy Shorts 52: Codependency Is All About Control And It Took Me Years to Come Out of Denial

Codependency often looks like kindness, but underneath it lies quiet, anxious control. In this piece, I explore how fear drives fixing, rescuing, and over-functioning and why reclaiming individuality is the true path to healing. If you’ve ever lost yourself in relationships, this will resonate deeply.

Therapy Shorts 51: The Myth of “We Complete Each Other”

In this episode, we look at how the Adaptive Self, early attachment learning, and blurred boundaries shape the way we enter relationships, and what it takes to build a stable, healthy We-Self where both people can stay present as themselves.

Therapy Shorts 50: People Pleasing Isn’t Kindness, It’s Control

People-pleasing isn’t a personality trait. It’s a survival strategy. It’s something you learned early, in environments where being agreeable wasn’t optional , it was necessary.

Therapy Shorts 49: The Truth No-One Wants To Hear

Welcome to Therapy Shorts: small moments of reflection to help you steady yourself in a world that never stops moving. I’m Dr Nicholas Jenner, and in each of these brief episodes, we’ll take a simple idea and look at how it actually plays out in real life… in your relationships, your choices, and the way you speak to yourself.

Therapy Shorts 48: If Nothing Changes, Nothing Changes

Welcome to Therapy Shorts: small moments of reflection to help you steady yourself in a world that never stops moving. I’m Dr Nicholas Jenner, and in each of these brief episodes, we’ll take a simple idea and look at how it actually plays out in real life… in your relationships, your choices, and the way you speak to yourself.