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Living Fast: ADHD, Counselling, and the Gift of Speed

A reflective account of living with ADHD, from early challenges to adult understanding. This blog explores impulsivity, identity, and how fast thinking can be reframed as a strength within counselling practice and everyday life. Grounded in lived experience, it offers a compassionate perspective on neurodiversity.

Why Do Counsellors… Talk About Endings?

Why does counselling end? This article explores why therapy has endings, how endings can bring growth, and why a respectful final session can be an important part of the therapeutic process.

Why Do Counsellors… Not Give Advice

Many people come to counselling looking for answers, but why don’t counsellors give advice? This article explores how therapy supports autonomy, helps you explore your options, and builds confidence in making your own decisions.

Why Do Counsellors… Use a Contract? Understanding the Counselling Agreement

Starting counselling often involves signing a contract, but what does that actually mean? This article explains why counsellors use contracts, what they include, and how they help create a safe, transparent, and professional therapeutic relationship between counsellor and client.

Why Do Counsellors… Use grounding techniques?

Grounding techniques are often used in counselling to help people manage anxiety, panic and overwhelming emotions. This article explores why counsellors use grounding exercises, how they work in the brain and body, and some simple techniques that can help bring attention back to the present moment.

Why Do Counsellors… Stay Silent? Understanding Silence in Counselling

A reflective exploration of silence in counselling and psychotherapy. This article considers how therapists use silence, what clients may experience during quiet moments in therapy, and how silence can support reflection, empathy, and deeper emotional understanding within the therapeutic relationship.

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