By Kay Duffield Looking back on my life I can pinpoint the exact moment when I decided to become a counsellor. I was struggling in life, I was in a period of depression and unable to see a way through it by myself, despite having support from family around me. The pain was too deep, too embedded and I did not want to burden people around me. I hit a really low point where alcohol had become a crutch. I thought I was going crazy at one point but the truth was that I was experiencing real...

By Vicky Urmston There have been a few times in my life where I found personal counselling helpful, from navigating problems in my relationships with others and learning how to practice self-care when struggling with post-natal depression. However, when starting out on my counselling journey, becoming a counsellor wasn't really my goal. I was looking to learn somethign new which would enhance my own personal development as well as being useful in supporting the volunteers I worked with who...

An overview of trauma and my top 5 ways to help overcome recent traumatic experiences.