So, It’s Your First Therapy Session? Lucky You!
Beginning therapy is a courageous and important step toward improving your mental health and well-being. Here are some things to consider as you start your therapy journey.
Bruxism and Its Psychological Implications
The therapists listed on It's Complicated are trained in many different modalities and have experience with all sorts of conditions. One of the lesser known specialties is bruxism, or what is commonly referred to as teeth grinding or clenching, which clinical psychologist Dr. Damla Yildirim has written an informative article about.
What is Hypnosystemic and Embodiment Psychology?
In this article, hypnosystemic and embodiment psychologist, Benedikt Schmidt, delves into his approach to therapy – one which is holistic, directly somatic and meaning-making
How to Create a Thriving Private Practice
Some therapists are able to build sustainable practices in just a month or two. In this article, I explore what enables this type of success.
Benefits of Having An Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
People still work too much and experience high levels of stress. However, a positive growing trend is that companies are starting to care about the mental health of their employees.
You Want To Get More Therapy Clients, But How?
A practical guide on how to grow your practice from a counsellor who recently started his work as a private practicing counsellor
The Worrying Effects of Worry
A number of years ago, I attended a family gathering in which I ended up having a discussion with a mother about worry. She asked me how she could stop being a “Worrier”, and we discussed in detail all of her worries and the impact it was having on her.
Thoughts on Nature and Self-Compassion
In a recent conversation with a colleague where we were talking about trust, forgiveness and other things therapists like to talk about, out of my mouth came a sentence that went something like: “Cultivating awe and respect for nature – and then coming to understand that I was part of the same nature which I so love – has allowed me to finally feel at home in my life”.
Things My Polyamorous Therapist Friends Say
For the sixth episode of the It’s Complicated podcast,
Reece Cox ventures into the realm of multilove. The episode is captivating and only left me curious for more brain pickings, so I wrote not just one of the interviewed psychotherapist, Mathias Funke, but also two other counsellors specialised in polyamory, Rosanna Wendel and Phil Sheldon. This is what came out of my probing.
Get Closer To Your Own Idea of Good with Lacanian Psychoanalysis
What is your idea of Good? Where do you find “Good”? And is this, in fact, the only question that psychoanalysis is allowed to ask?
