In this blog post I explore the best ways to stop ourselves from spiralling when events or people trigger a trauma-based stress response. The Five Anchors come from Resmaa Menakem’s (highly recommended) book “My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialised Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies" and are themselves based on the work of Dr David Schnarch.

Content Warning – this blog contains references to racism, ableism, suicide, rape, misogyny, queer, fat and transphobia.

In this blog post I’ll explore Sonya Renee Taylor’s wonderful book “The Body Is Not An Apology” along with the ways that body terrorism shows up, and how we can resist it using radical self-love.

In this blog post I discuss death anxiety, what it is, and how therapy can help us to process the fact of death itself.

Trigger warning: contains discussions about death but no details of death as a process.

In this blog post I explore what Minority Stress is, why it’s important to be aware of it and how it might be impacting on your mental health.

In this blog article we delve into some of the ways the brain and nervous system are changed for the better via psychotherapy. We also explore what’s going on for us in the room when we work with a psychotherapist.

Trauma is a word that’s bandied around a lot in pop-culture and social justice circles. Usually, trauma is used to describe a disturbing, deeply distressing experience of overwhelm. In this blog I explore what trauma is, some of the unusual ways it can show up for us and how psychological therapies can help.