17.04.26
When Good Enough Isn't Enough: Understanding Perfectionism.
Perfectionism is often worn as a badge of competence — but beneath the high standards and relentless drive, it can quietly exact a significant toll.
Articles
Writing by the practitioners at Kensington Counselling Rooms. Newest first.
18.11.25
How Couples Therapy Helps New Parents Manage the Pressures of Starting a Family
Many find the pressures of parenthood, sleepless nights, and changing roles can strain their relationship. Couples therapy provides a supportive space to navigate these challenges.
21.10.25
Healing Through Feeling: Integrating Mind, Body, and Emotions
Healing isn’t just about thinking or analyzing — it begins with feeling. By integrating mind, body, and emotions, we can reconnect with our inner experiences.
29.08.25
Why am I feeling so anxious? Understanding anxiety as a natural part of grief
One often overlooked response to loss is anxiety, which is a completely natural part of coping with the death of someone close.
07.08.25
The Body Remembers: A Somatic Healing Approach to Emotional Pain
Emotions we ignore or suppress do not simply disappear — they often get stored in the body, and over time can manifest as tension, discomfort or illness.
19.06.25
Just Breathe—Or Is It Deeper? How Breathwork Helps You Heal and Reconnect
Breathwork for trauma healing offers a gentle yet powerful way to reconnect with your body and calm your mind, one conscious breath at a time.
01.05.25
Discovering Autism at 50: My Journey to Late Diagnosis and Self-Acceptance
A personal reflection on being diagnosed with autism at fifty, and what it means to reframe a lifetime of experiences through the lens of neurodivergence.
07.04.25
The Mind-Body Connection in Therapy
By understanding how mental and physical states are intertwined, therapists can help clients achieve deeper healing and overall well-being.
13.03.25
From Fear to Confidence: Managing Maths Anxiety Effectively
Recognising the signs of maths anxiety is the first step towards overcoming it and building confidence in your skills.
20.01.25
Is my therapist racist?
What to do when the therapy room does not feel safe, and how to raise race and difference with your therapist.
16.12.24
Embracing Neurodiversity: How I Practice a Neuro-Affirming Approach to Counselling
What a neuro-affirming approach looks like in practice, and why it matters for autistic and ADHD clients.
10.11.24
Psychological Resilience – why it’s important and ways to build it
Resilience is not about avoiding difficulty. It is about recovering, and it can be built deliberately.
10.11.24
Bereavement, loss and grief
I am a practising Gestalt psychotherapist and EMDR practitioner. I work holistically as each individual is unique and everyone seeks counselling and psychotherapy for different reasons; sometimes…
10.11.24
How to survive the coronavirus isolation when living alone?
We have been asked to self-isolate and most of us, more or less reluctantly complied. Most of us went through a phase of disbelief or even denial of the severity of the problem. It is hard to accept…
10.11.24
Are counselling and psychotherapy practices safe for face to face work after the pandemic?
The current pandemic has impacted various areas of our lives including how and where we access counselling. Although initially, the majority of sessions moved to the online domain, clients and…
10.11.24
What is cognitive behavioural hypnotherapy and how can it help?
You may have heard of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT); a foundation of modern psychological therapy which empowers you to tackle unhelpful thinking and improve your wellbeing, and you’ve probably…
10.11.24
Travma dedektörü ‘EMDR’
Dünyayı nasıl gördüğümüz, çevremizdeki insanlarla kurduğumuz ilişkiler büyük ölçüde bellek ağlarımızda saklı olan yaşam deneyimlerimizle şekillenmektedir. Anılarımızın oluşturduğu ağlar…
10.11.24
Counselling for Anxiety
All people experience anxiety at different times in our lives, whether about making a big decision, dealing with an unexpected event or being exposed to a threatening situation. Whilst unpleasant to…
10.11.24
Counselling for Depression
Everyone feels down sometimes, but for some of us the feeling does not go away and we find it can get worse and have a big impact on our lives. Depression is a mood disorder that lasts for a long…
10.11.24
7 tips for navigating the world as a late-diagnosed autistic woman
Seven ways to navigate life as a late-diagnosed autistic woman: unmasking, sensory needs, self-advocacy and self-care, from an autistic counsellor.
10.11.24
Mentalization-Based Therapy (MBT)
Born in Poland, studied in Cracow Iberic Studies (language and literature) and was a French and Spanish teacher for twenty years then changed completely professional direction for psychotherapy.…
10.11.24
Understanding Dissociation: Navigating the Depths of Detachment
What dissociation is, how it protects us, and how therapy can help you come back into contact.
10.11.24
Realising you’re LGBTQ+ later in life and how LGBTQ+ affirmative therapy can help
Coming out later in life brings its own grief and its own freedom. Affirmative therapy holds both.
06.11.24
First Responders and Mental Health
The particular pressures on ambulance, fire and police staff, and what helps.