Vicarious Trauma

When I’m tempted to numb with trash-TV, I’m sometimes able to drag my mind out of the soap opera gutter toward something meaningful, and just today I had such an opportunity. I was lucky enough to come across this engrossing TED-X talk by Laura van Dernoot...

Integrating Coaching and Counselling

My friend and colleague Carolyn Mumby has recently published an interesting article in BACP’s Private Practice magazine about the integration of coaching and counselling. Along with other practitioners, I was asked to contribute and here’s the outcome....

Trauma expert

Dr. Bessell van der Kolk was one of the first trauma experts who made sense to me. Here’s a piece I wrote last year about the experience of attending one of his lectures in 1998: SPEECHLESS I am speechless, horrified, pinned motionless in my chair. Grainy images...

Compelling

Do you more easily relate to having had an adverse childhood experience than childhood trauma? For some, this descriptor will be a portal to exploring the consequence of such experiences, and if your curiousity is piqued, I highly recommend this...
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