Counselling and therapy news

Have you ever had counselling? What was the experience like for you? Was it helpful, scary, challenging, worthwhile? How much did it change your life – or not? We’re building a collection of articles on our website about all aspects of counselling and psychotherapy, and we’d really like to hear from people who have attended [...]

Mental health charities have welcomed a recent debate in the House of Commons which saw a series of MPs reveal their personal experiences of mental health problems, some for the first time. According to figures gathered by the Mental Health Foundation, 1 in 4 people in the UK will experience some sort of problem affecting [...]

If you’ve ever wondered whether some meditation might be just what you need after a hard day at work, college or looking after the kids, then a scientific study has provided evidence that you could be on to a very good idea indeed. The research study has shown that just a few sessions of meditative [...]

Love Productions is making a primetime Channel 4 series about people who are on a journey to death as a consequence of life limiting illnesses.  The aim of this series is to present the subject of death to a mainstream audience in an open and honest way; thereby adding to the wider debate about how we [...]

Home movies shot in and around Yorkshire from the 1940s to the 1970s are being used to help people with dementia reconnect with their past and with a sense of personal and community identity. The project – called ‘Memory Bank’ – was developed by the Yorkshire Film Archive and a range of health and social [...]

Eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia and their prevalence amongst professional dancers were amongst the keenly debated topics at a recent conference organised by Dance UK and hosted by the Royal College of Medicine in London. “Let’s talk about it” Leading members of the UK’s dance professions, including Dame Monica Mason, director of the [...]