Child Abuse : An Unforgivable Crime
Children are suffering from a hidden epidemic of child abuse and neglect. Every year more than 3 million reports of child abuse are made in the United States alone involving…
The role of False Memory in Abuse Denial
When a child is sexually abused, it is done within the context of a manipulation of love and trust. For an abuser to achieve his or her goal of sexual gratification,…
Life Coaching and Mental Illness : A potential minefield?
I recently read an intriguing article from one of my favourite Psychology Today contributors, Dr David Ley, on the rise of Life Coaching in mental health care. As a psychologist,…
Online therapy : What do clients think?
The online side of my business is becoming bigger than I ever expected. Despite the challenges of working across time zones and cultures, it has been a rewarding experience so…
Taking therapy Online : What are the challenges?
I was recently asked by someone to contribute to their thesis. She wrote to me a year after our first contact to suggest that the work that we did together…
The Role Of a Father
As I work longer with clients, it is clear that the parenting style that they were subjected to as a child is extremely important in determining how they see the world. This…
Suicide : The Warning Signs and What to do
Every 40 seconds somewhere around the world someone dies by suicide, that’s 99 people every 66 minutes. Alcohol makes people more prone to committing suicide by violent methods like hanging,…
Accepting Failure and Learning from it
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying…