Insights & Perspectives

I am pleased to be launching my counselling practice in Consett, offering face to face counselling locally as well as online sessions across the UK.

Most people who book a first counselling session have spent longer than they would like to admit thinking about it. Here is what actually happens, and why it is not what most people expect.

Every year on 1st March, Self-Injury Awareness Day encourages us to have open, honest conversations about self-harm. Neil Atkinson reflects on what self-injury really is, why people self-harm, and how we can respond with compassion.

If you're worried about someone, this is for you. The signs to look for, the question to ask, and why asking it directly could be the most important thing you ever do.

I did not come to counselling through a textbook. I came to it through loss, and the realisation that I had nowhere to put what I was feeling.

I started training to help others. I didn't expect how much it would teach me about myself. Three years on, here is what the training has been like.