It’s funny that when I tell people that I am a Psychologist, they immediately think that I only work with people who are ‘ill’ and that Psychologists only work with depression or anxiety. But in life, looking after our everyday mental health is as important as looking after our physical health. There is even a […]
Category: Wellness
I bought a new razor to live better
I bought a new razor. But isn’t this a psychology blog? Well yes, I have a point. So after Christmas 2022, I bought a new razor, but not one from the supermarket but rather one from Beard and Blade, a specialist hair and shaving site. It’s a old style safety razor, I remove the top […]
Your hobbies suck or, Why you need to seek better joy.
Yep, you read that right, your hobbies suck. I’m not apologising for it because it is true. You play with your kids? Spend time with your partner? Garden? Go to the gym? Wow, what a rule breaker. Your hobbies suck, they really do. I often sit across the room in therapy with a client and […]
What is the treatment for blood phobia (hemophobia)
Hemophobia, blood phobia, fear of blood, whatever you call it, can be a major problem in the lives of sufferers. Broadly called blood-injury-injection phobia is a relatively common phobia and we’ll look a little bit at the treatment options. A phobia, unlike a fear, is an unconscious response to a feared stimulus which causes dysfunction […]
Better mental health today
5 Steps to better mental well-being There are so many ways that are sold to help you with better mental health and with the Internet being a big part of our lives it is so hard to determine fact from fiction. The big issue is that people tend to look at wholesale change, rather than […]
Anxiety at work
There has been a lot of focus on stress and anxiety at work in the past few weeks, with several news articles coming out talking about these issues. I thought that it would be good to look at some of the reasons that people present to a Psychologist for anxiety at work to help to […]