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I’m writing about couple counselling today. I see many couples for face to face counselling as well as for Skype counselling. There is certainly a place for Skype counselling regardless of what many counsellors say about using modern day technology to counsel people. I have found that both therapies can be equally beneficial for couples [...]

Posted on 8th July 2010 I have been working with a very interesting client this week who suffered from emetophobia (fear of being sick). Now you would think that emetophobia would be a very uncommon fear or phobia, however, according to various health websites, emetophobia is actually quite common. Emetophobia can be a very debilitating [...]

I’ve worked in the addiction field for many years now and I see myself as having a good understanding of how addiction works but more importantly how to treat it. Although the addiction client group can be difficult and challenging at times (that’s an understatement) ‘addicts’ and their addiction need to be understood. So you [...]

  See they’re at it again; they’ve managed to recruit a new sports member to encourage gambling. I’m talking about of course a certain gambling agency that has a new commercial that is allowed to encourage gambling through the power of television and what better time to do so with the World Cup about to [...]

Well, it’s nearly upon us, that football frenzied fanatical extravaganza called the ‘World Cup’ and it’s really starting to build up. Love it or loath it, it’s a fascinating subject. I had a very interesting chat with my brother- in-law yesterday about the world cup and football in general where we exchanged our opinions like [...]

  There’s a very interesting debate going on just now regarding heroin addicts in prison and what the treatment costs are to treat those suffering from this debilitating and often deadly disease. It is very interesting how it is viewed in a Daily Mail article entitled ‘Cost of maintaining the heroin addiction of convicts to [...]

  This blog is part 2 of the conscious and subconscious mind. This blog looks breifly at the subconscious mind. Please click on the link below to find more information on the conscious and subconscious. The functions and events that transpire in the human brain or mind, that have no place in the boundaries of [...]

This is part 1 of a 2 part blog looking at the conscious and the subconscious mind. This blog briefly looks at the conscious mind, for more information on the conscious and the subconscious please click on the link below. Freud’s theory of personality is a psychoanalytic theory that describes the realm of our conscious [...]

There is no better self help technique or book that is gaining more popularity these days than the one by author Rhonda Byrne who also produced a movie earlier in 2006 with the title “The Secret”. The movie was actually a documentary style review about a few people’s lives that had been touched by the [...]

Sexuality is an important aspect of being a human, as important as nutrition and oxygen some professionals indicate. Sexual activity has been linked to the natural release of opioids and dopamine in the human brain. The release is triggered much like the pleasure and satisfaction of eating when hunger is released. It is an instinctive [...]