Ideas and guidance
Articles for understanding, reflection and change
Practical insights from counsellors across Aotearoa, written to help you make sense of what you are experiencing.
Counselling: Important checklist- 5 essential questions answered about finding counselling.
Finding asuitable counselling service can be overwhelming. Here are five questionsanswered to help you on your quest for better mental well-being.
Relationship Goal: Improve your relationship now with these 5 goals.
What are your relationship goals? Deciding on your goals when you are 16 years old canbe different from what you will need as a 25-year-old or 40 years old. Ourviews on a relationship can change over time. Each of us has our idea of how arelationship could be. However, that is often very different to…
Relationship roadblocks: 12 ways of communication that are harmful to your relationship.
Relationship roadblocks are the barriers that dampen or stop the flow of communication between couples. Roadblocks can cause further tension in a relationship. The stress can quickly trickle through to other aspects of our lives when not addressed. It can make people feel unsupported when they are not validated by voicing their concerns.
SFBT- Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: Understand five techniques primarily used in Solution Focused Brief Therapy.
Solution-focused brief therapy – A talk therapy that emphasizes the client’s present and desirable future rather than their past experiences. The role of the counsellor or the therapist is to listen, select and build. Clients are experts of their circumstances. They have the solutions and need the space and time to examine their existing toolbox.
CBT – Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
CBT is one most effective therapies backed by scientific research that exists today. It is an effective therapy for people who suffer from anxiety, phobias, stress, & depression.
Anxiety Disorder: Learn 7 strategies you can use to reduce anxiety during Christmas and New Year break.
Learn seven strategies to cope with the festivities this year. The need toachieve better life satisfaction becomes more significant during festive season. Itusually results in high anxiety levels due to financial and emotional stress. Having high anxiety and stress can lead to a sleep deficit. Lack of sleep can easily lead to depression.
Loneliness the growing epidemic – Discover 10 Strategies to Curb Loneliness.
Loneliness can happen to us from time to time. Whether it is a new relationship or new job, orgetting older, there will be times when life challenges make it a bit moredifficult to navigate. Discover what loneliness is and how to manage it.
Intrusive Thoughts- 3 most common types and discover why we fear having these thoughts.
Intrusive thoughts can be negative, violent or compulsive. They are often correlated with safety or risk and can be offensive and explicit. Everyone is likely to have intrusive thoughts from time to time. Most try and dismiss it and go about their day.
Effective Online Counselling
Looking at how technology and online counselling can help with mental health.
Relationship Counselling: Choosing Love, above all else
Choosing love is part of who we are as human. Love is intrinsic. What is love? Why are we crazy about love? Is love just an illusion? What does it take to stay in love?
Supporting Men For Better Mental Health
Men are often prosecuted for showing anger. This is one of the biggest barrier men had to face. While we have a lot of promotion to encourage men to show emotions, there is still an expectation that men can manage their troubled mind and carry on. We need to explore what this does to our…
Anger
Anger is a secondary emotion meaning that others’ feelings, such as frustration, lie beneath it.
