Blog

Please find below our recent blog posts...

• 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.