February in the UK is LGBT History Month, a time to recognise LGBT issues, topics and history. It's incredibly important to the community, but I also feel it's important for society as a whole. As a bisexual woman who only "came out" to her family last year, I've been exploring my own thoughts, feelings and experiences and hope to cover some of those in this article.
Last night I attended a seminar ran by the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust entitled “Whiteness – A problem for our times” which aimed to “examine white privilege and white fragility from a psychoanalytic perspective”. This was led by Helen Morgan, Fellow of the British Psychotherapy Foundation, training analyst and supervisor who has a… Continue reading Tavistock Policy Seminar: Whiteness – A Problem for Our Times
The CTUK community sent a series of questions to the BACP (and I believe also the UKCP, BPC etc) to get some clarity on the issues that will impact on us. On 15th December they published the answers that they received from the BACP. I’m very surprised that they heard something back before Christmas! Their published answers have not been analysed by CTUK, so I thought I’d look at the issues and highlight some of the key parts that I picked up.
The CTUK community sent a series of questions to the BACP (and I believe also the UKCP, BPC etc) to get some clarity on the issues that will impact on us. On 15th December they published the answers that they received from the BACP. I'm very surprised that they heard something back before Christmas! Their published answers have not been analysed by CTUK, so I thought I'd look at the issues and highlight some of the key parts that I picked up.
The CTUK community sent a series of questions to the BACP (and I believe also the UKCP, BPC etc) to get some clarity on the issues that will impact on us. On 15th December they published the answers that they received from the BACP. I’m very surprised that they heard something back before Christmas! Their published answers have not been analysed by CTUK, so I thought I’d look at the issues and highlight some of the key parts that I picked up.
The CTUK community sent a series of questions to the BACP (and I believe also the UKCP, BPC etc) to get some clarity on the issues that will impact on us. On 15th December they published the answers that they received from the BACP. I'm very surprised that they heard something back before Christmas! Their published answers have not been analysed by CTUK, so I thought I'd look at the issues and highlight some of the key parts that I picked up.
As a trainee counsellor/psychotherapist I often get asked what politics has to do with therapy. It saddens me as there is often a suggestion that to be a therapist I need to leave my personal ethics at the door - and yet, we all abide by an ethical framework. My personal ethics are coloured by my political view in life. I see and experience injustices, and they cannot be ignored.
October is Black History Month in the UK, an event that has been celebrated nationwide for more than 30 years. I'm ashamed to say that I didn't know about it until I was at university when I was 19.
As a counselling student, about to start my first placement hours, I am unexpectedly having to deal with the very real and painful loss of my grandmother.
Today is World Mental Health Day. I suppose it's natural for me to want to put out a post about it - I'm a trainee therapist with lived experiences of mental illness. I don't think that mental health is something we should only speak about on one day of the year, but I do think… Continue reading World Mental Health Day
