‘Mum guilt’ can feel like an invisible pressure – a constant sense of needing to do more, be more and get it right. This article explores the hidden mental load many mothers carry, and offers hopefully a gentle and compassionate way of understanding what that guilt might really be.

Anxiety can be exhausting – especially when you’re trying to “fix” it or push it away. This post explores why anxiety often isn’t the enemy, and how therapy can help you relate to it differently – with more steadiness, understanding and choice.

Many men spend years coping quietly – carrying pressure, emotions and responsibility without much space to talk about it. In this final article of the four-part series, I explore what can begin to change when a man is met with understanding rather than pressure to fix himself.

Part three of Reflections on men, emotion and therapy. When anger and/or numbness take over, it can feel confusing or overwhelming. This piece explores how these responses are not failures but signals – ways the system copes when feelings have nowhere else to go.

In the second of a 4-part series focusing on men, emotion and therapy: why many men delay asking for help – and what’s really going on beneath the pressure to cope, stay independent and carry responsibility.

This is the first article in a new series that focuses on men, emotion and therapy. It reflects on the quieter pressures men live with, and how therapy can offer space to put some of that weight down.

Real, lasting change doesn’t come from trying harder – it comes from understanding yourself more deeply, and meeting the parts of you that have been trying to protect you.

AI is now part of everyday life – even in mental health. But while technology can help us learn and reflect, it can’t replace the healing that comes from being truly seen and felt by another person. This post explores why AI can never replace the human connection that remains at the heart of therapy.

Many of the struggles we bring to therapy are really about disconnection – from ourselves, from others, or from the world around us. This post explores how therapy can help rebuild a sense of real, grounded connection over time.

Therapy doesn’t happen in a bubble. Who we are – our backgrounds, our identities, our experiences in the world – all shape how we feel, how we cope and how we show up in the therapy room. That’s why social justice matters here too.

Most of us grow up learning that uncomfortable feelings are best avoided. But what if discomfort isn’t something to be pushed away – what if it’s to be listened to?

Thinking about starting therapy but not sure what to expect? In this post, I gently challenge a few common misunderstandings about what therapy is – and isn’t. If you’re feeling unsure or hesitant, this might help clarify things and offer a clearer sense of what the process can look and feel like.