Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

by | Jun 14, 2021 | Mental Health Issues

Our Experience and Training Our lead psychologist, Colin Matthews, is highly experienced in the treatment of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). He trained at Warneford Hospital (Oxford), one of two centres of excellence in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) in the...

Existential Crisis

by | Jun 10, 2021 | Uncategorized

As human beings, we generally understand ourselves, the world (culturally, spiritually) and other people in a reasonably consistent way. We can cope with challenges to our understanding and modify our beliefs appropriately through. There will be events in our lives,...

Depression

by | Nov 1, 2020 | Mental Health Issues

Every year in the UK, between 4 and 10 people in every hundred will suffer from depression. Depression is different to occasionally feeling down. It is feeling down and low and hopeless for weeks at a time. It interferes with daily living and normal routine and...

Managing Mood during Lockdown

by | Apr 3, 2020 | COVID-19

In the first of a series of videos on managing mental health, we look at ways to manage your mood during lockdown. The video was done right at the start of the lockdown in the UK but its focus on self care and making the decisions that work best for your own...

Anxiety and COVID-19

by | Apr 1, 2020 | COVID-19

I would like to introduce you to (or remind you of) a very simple equation about anxiety: Anxiety =   the risk of something bad happening + the consequences vs ability to cope JEROME FAVRE, EPA-EFE Let’s use this equation to consider our responses to...