Blog

Please find below our recent blog posts...

• Learning To Play, Playing To Learn
  20/07/2021

  Feldenkrais practitioner Dianne Hancock explores the importance of play and playfulness, as children and long into adulthood.
  
  

• Movement, Creativity and Play
  14/07/2021

  Biodynamic Craniosacral therapist Megan Hattoo explores how movement and creativity impact us, our bodies, and our lives.
  

• Create, Play, and Move to Reverse the Most Common Pattern
  08/07/2021

  Acupuncturist, Megan Odell explores common energy-depleting patterns and simple life changes that can be made to help heal.

• Vocal Sound in the Body-Mind Relationship
  23/06/2021

  Body Psychotherapist, Anne Ryan, explores the healing power of vocal sound.

• Sleep and Emotional States
  16/06/2021

  Daniel Kronenberg (Clinical Hypnotherapist) looks at the negative impact of sleep deprivation on our emotional states.
  

• Aphasia
  09/06/2021

  Dr Rachel Adams explores Aphasia, a complex language disorder resulting from neurological damage to the brain. It can affect a person’s ability to talk, write and understand spoken and written language, whilst leaving other cognitive abilities intact.
  

• Fear of Going Out
  04/06/2021

  FOGO - have you, or someone you care for, suddenly developed a fear of going out?
  

• A Self-Compassionate Approach to Low Self Esteem
  18/05/2021

  Sarah Lane (Counsellor) explores our inner critic and how to be more compassionate towards ourselves to help improve our self-esteem.
  

• Three Parenting Mistakes That Damage Teenagers’ Self-Esteem
  14/05/2021

  Confidence and Self-Esteem Coach Kevin Birch talks about the 3 main mistakes parents make that can damage teenagers self-esteem, and what to do instead.
  

• Self-Esteem
  12/05/2021

  Susan Malone-Hoyle what self-esteem is and how to improve it, including a Self-Esteem Inventory worksheet.
  

• How to build self-esteem and feel confident
  07/05/2021

  In aid of National Teen Self Esteem Month, Jessica Vassallo looks at limiting self-beliefs and six steps to building self-esteem.

• How to Boost Your Self Esteem in the Work Place
  04/05/2021

  Life Coach, Caroline Rushforth, looks at the causes of self-esteem and how to boost it.

• Coping with a diagnosis of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
  21/04/2021

  Nicole George (Psychological therapist) talks about IBS, the psychological impact it has on sufferers, and how Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) can help. 
  

• Power & Control
  19/04/2021

  Family Constellations Practitioner, Barbara Morgan, explores Power & Control in our lives and the wider world.

• What does your gut tell you?
  14/04/2021

  Trainee Psychotherapist Luke Roberts explores the important role our gut plays, not only in the digestion of food but also in psychological wellbeing.

• Detecting Root Causes of IBS
  07/04/2021

  Nutritionist Helen Cooke explores 4 key root causes of IBS.

• 10 Daily Affirmations for Self Love
  22/03/2021

  Life Coach, Caroline Rushforth, shares 10 daily affirmations to help self love.

• It’s a woman thing!
  15/03/2021

  Anne Duke looks at dealing with the Menopause and what can help women during this transitional period.

• Western Diet Impact on Female Fertility
  08/03/2021

  Karina Smith-Reyes looks at the impact Western Diet can have on women's health and offers some online programmes for those wanting to start making positive changes.
  

• Binge eating when we're asleep - it's time to wake up
  01/03/2021

  Jessica Vassallo explores unconscious eating and our habits around food, and how to gain healthier mindsets to help practice more mindful eating.

• Does Sex Matter in Covid Times?
  17/02/2021

  Maria and Chanden of Nexus Counselling explore the importance of sex during difficult times such as Covid-19.
  

• Four Nutrients to Increase Libido & Sexual Performance
  10/02/2021

  Nutritionalist Karina Smith-Reyes looks at the impact on nutrition on our sex lives.

• But it was my fault
  03/02/2021

  Jessica Barber reflects on her role as a Psychotherapist when working with clients who have suffered from abuse.
  

• Metamorphosis
  25/01/2021

  New Practice Manager, Stephen Holmes, reflects on the New Year, embracing the darkness we're faced with, and emerging stronger from it.

• I am the centre. The centre is me.
  21/01/2021

  A beautiful poem written by Charley, our Practice Manager in Queen Square (Bristol).

• A Change for the Better
  20/01/2021

  Dianne Hancock explores the use of The Feldenkrais Method to help identity limiting habits and create change.

• Top 5 Nutrition & Lifestyle Tips to Strengthen Your Immune System in 2021
  06/01/2021

  Nutritional Therapist and Health Coach Karina Smith-Reyes gives her top 5 nutrition & lifestyle tips to strengthen your immune system this year.

• Poetry from Ayaz Angus Landman
  23/12/2020

  Poetry featured on our Christmas as The Birth Of Truth evening with Ayaz Angus Landman and bard Gayan Tony Donaghy.

• Mindful Walking through the Seasons
  21/12/2020

  Sarah Lane (Counsellor and Mindfulness Teacher) brings mindfulness to our everyday walks.

• Biophilia and the mind
  17/12/2020

  An extract from towards the end of James Brennan's forthcoming book, Making Sense of Being Alive: A Natural History of the Mind.
  

• Connecting with Nature
  14/12/2020

  Piia Laakso (Massage Therapists) reflects on the joy and peace she finds from connecting with nature, and how it can aid her and her clients in their massage experience.

• Christmas as The Birth Of Truth
  10/12/2020

  Join poet Ayaz Angus Landman and bard and psychotherapist Gayan Tony Donaghy for a poetic solstice Sufi ramble, weaving a mystical meditation and exploration of the meaning of Christmas as  “The Birth of Truth”.
  

• Is Nature Outside Of Us?
  10/12/2020

  Charley Roux (Acupuncturist) explores the beauty of finding nature within us.
  

• The Importance of Spending Time in Nature
  07/12/2020

  Physiotherapy, Matt Kinal explores the benefits of spending time in nature.
  

• A Wholearth Approach - a relationship of Oneness
  02/12/2020

  Starting this month's Nature blog topic, Ally Stott explores the 'Wholearth Approach' which recognises that we are nature - we humans are of the same Body as the wider than human world, of plants, water, animals, trees, insects, sky, rock.

• A Rock and a Hard Place
  25/11/2020

  Ben Jones (Counsellor) explores the portrayal of men as hardened individuals who must strive to perform, the threat this can place on their mental health, and how therapy can help men explore deeper within themselves.

• Hypnotherapy for erectile dysfunction
  20/11/2020

  Jon Creffield (Hypnotherapist) looks at the links between stress and erectile dysfunction and how hypnotherapy can help.
  

• Men, Be Kind to Yourself
  16/11/2020

  Jamie de Carvalho (Psychotherapist) looks at male stereotypes and learning to speak about your feelings.
  
  

• Becoming a Father – Why Dads need more mental health support
  12/11/2020

  Clinical Psychologist Jenny Griffiths looks at mental health in fathers - the struggles they may be under, how they might be feeling, depression, and what to do.

• Men’s Mental Health During Covid-19
  09/11/2020

  Owen Lewis (Hypnotherapist) explores the strain Men's Mental Health is under during Covid-19.

• Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH)
  04/11/2020

  Katherine Corsan, a BANT-registered nutritionist, provides an in-depth exploration of Benign Prostate Hyperplasia (BPH).
  

• The Transformation of Cotham Hill
  26/10/2020

  Practice Manager, Sam Hill, write about the transformation of our Cotham Hill centre in Bristol. 

• The Pieta
  23/10/2020

  Poetry by Angus Landman on seeing Michaelangelo’s Pieta St Peters Rome

• Cage Maker or Cage Breaker?
  22/10/2020

  Villy Tichkova's blog on Addictions and how to recreate ourselves in a world of uncertainty and social isolation.
  

• Addiction
  13/10/2020

  Hermione Brown looks into what addiction is, the difference between a habit and an addiction, and breaking free from addiction.

• Facing up to addiction with solution-focused hypnotherapy
  07/10/2020

  Jon Creffield explores addiction and how solution focused hypnotherapy can help.

• Frequency Medicine Offers New Hope for Overcoming Chemical Dependency
  02/10/2020

  The first of our Addiction blog topics - Bioresonance practitioner, Kasey, explains how this form of treatment can help chemical dependencies.

• The Breath
  24/09/2020

  Emma Cayless reflects on her experience of true mind-body connection through meditation and the breath.

• Frondescence
  21/09/2020

  Emma Bartley's leafy ramble into the wonderful world of Greenery.

• Happiness through Body and Mind
  18/09/2020

  Psychotherapist Sonja Anthony looks at finding happiness through body and mind.

• Wellbeing and the language of the Body Mind
  17/09/2020

  Body Movement Psychotherapist, Hannah Murdoch, discusses the language of Body Mind.
  

• Holistic Health
  14/09/2020

  Susan Lacroix looks at holistic health and ways of helping ourselves.
  

• Mind and Body: What's the connection?
  11/09/2020

  Psychotherapist, Hermione Brown, explores our mind - body connection and how we can listen to our bodies to gain insight into our stresses and troubles.
  

• The Holistic Benefits of Healing Through Sound Meditation
  09/09/2020

  Paula Bowen-Scott explores the soothing powers of a Gong bath.

• Is Psychotherapy touching?
  07/09/2020

  Caroline Duggan looks at the mind and body connection through her work as a Body Psychotherapist and her use of touch with sessions.
  

• Mind and Body Connections
  04/09/2020

  Villy Tichkova explores the dance between Mind and Body.

• The Brain-Gut Connection: IBS and Hypnotherapy
  01/09/2020

  This month's focus is on the mind-body connection and holistic healing. Daniel Kronenberg starts us off with his blog on IBS and Hypnotherapy.

• Parenting in a pandemic
  27/08/2020

  Counsellor, Martin Alderton, reflects on his client's experience of parenting in a pandemic.

• Parenthood in lockdown
  24/08/2020

  Family Therapist, Richard Clarke, reflects on his experience of parenting during lockdown.

• Parenting Yourself
  21/08/2020

  Holistic Hypnotherapist Melody May explores the importance of parenting yourself as well as your children.
  

• The Right Port in a Storm
  19/08/2020

  The Practice Rooms' manager, Nicola Hall, reflects on being a Practice Manager in Bristol.
  

• The Psychology of Parenting in a nutshell: Reflections from a Clinical Psychologist
  17/08/2020

  Clinical Psychologist, Dr Jenny Griffiths, reflects on the psychology of parenting.

• A Pocket Guide to Parenting
  14/08/2020

  How to raise adults who thrive in an ever-changing world.
  

• The Millstone of Parental Guilt
  11/08/2020

  In our first of this month's Parenthood blogs, Jo Lloyd looks at the feelings of guilt that parents battle with.

• The Art of Listening
  23/07/2020

  In this short blog, Angus Landman outlines and suggests the four stages of the “Art” of listening and expands a little on each.
  

• Friendships (and what to do if you’re an introvert…)
  20/07/2020

  CBT Therapist, Tom Holland-Pearce looks at socialising and friendship as an introvert.

• The Practice Rooms in Exeter
  13/07/2020

  What our centre in Exeter and the surrounding area have to offer.

• Friendship
  06/07/2020

  The impact of friendship on our wellbeing.

• Pride or shame: Working well with LGBTQ+ clients
  01/07/2020

  Pride and shame: two end points on a spectrum of acceptance of oneself regarding gender identity and sexual orientation.
  

• Sleeping Clifton Practice
  30/06/2020

  We reflect on the vast changes at our centre in Clifton from it's opening last Autumn to the present situation.

• A Solstice Reflection - So too the World
  19/06/2020

  When considering the troubles of the world, I sometimes ask myself, if the world were my client how would I be in relation to it?
  

• Proud in the absence of Pride
  18/06/2020

  Zayna Ratta, an LGBTQIA+ hypno-psychotherapist, talks about sexual, gender and relationally diverse minorities.

• Salisbury - a historical hub
  18/05/2020

  Getting to know our quirky Salisbury centre, written by manager Alison. 

• Self care: a path to reach your dreams
  13/05/2020

  A how guide on using self care to manifest your hearts desires by our therapist Laura Cocconi, a holistic therapist based in Hove. 
  

• Practitioner Interview - Katrina Allen
  08/05/2020

  Getting to know one of our practitioners, Katrina Allen who practices as a sex therapist and psychotherapist in Sheffield.

• The energy of stress
  20/04/2020

  Why do we come to feel stressed and how does it affect us? More importantly, how can we discharge that energy? A blog by kinesiologist and Shiatsu practitioner, Jacqueline Lawes. 

• A little oasis
  13/04/2020

  Clifton Village - a bustling inner city suburb hiding a lovely little oasis. 

• Lessons from Covid-19: how to stay sane in self-isolation
  30/03/2020

  Some simple tips from Ana, a psychotherapist in Hove about how to care for our mental health whilst isolated. 

• Pause for Thought by Angus Landman
  28/03/2020

  I think this will be seen to be a truly epoque defining moment in human history. Are we ready to take advantage of it? 

• Managing Stress as a Therapist
  25/03/2020

  Creating and reviewing your self-care routine as a therapist to manage your stress better. 

• Nutritional Tips for Coronavirus
  19/03/2020

  Some nutritional tips from Helen Cooke, a nutritionist in Bristol about how to boost immunity during Coronavirus. 

• Online Emotional Support - Seeking talking therapists
  17/03/2020

  As part of a professional response to the current unprecedented crisis, the Help Hub are seeking qualified psychotherapists and counsellors to provide an online or telephone service to those in urgent need of emotional support.
  

• The Practice Rooms and Coronavirus - a letter from Angus
  16/03/2020

  A letter from Angus, the managing director of The Practice Rooms, about the business' stance on coronavirus, and how we can all help each other. 

• Mindfulness and Community
  06/03/2020

  When people first come into one of our centres, they are often struck by how beautiful the rooms are, both structurally and with the furnishings.