Wise Counselling Blog

Animals can really help

Tue 3rd Oct 2017

I've written before about how I believe that animals can really help people with mental health problems of all kinds. Animals are known to bring stress levels down and be a comfort to people who are troubled and often alone. I sometimes use my own animals in the counselling room...

A wise man mulling over a near brush with death and how it made him realise how precious life is....

Mon 7th Aug 2017

I have great respect for the psychotherapist Abraham Maslow and I recently came across these words written by him.  He wrote them, not long after he had experienced a near-fatal heart attack. 

 "The confrontation with death - and the reprieve from it - makes everything look so precious, so sacred, so...

Eeyore

Mon 24th Jul 2017

When life looks so bleak and you can't see the wood for the trees

Tue 16th May 2017

When we are in the depths of depression or are finding life too much to cope with, it is often hard to imagine a happier future. Have a watch of this video and you may be very pleasantly surprised with what you see - I was.

Even princes suffer with anxiety and mental health problems

Tue 18th Apr 2017

It would have been hard to miss the coverage of Prince Harry’s recent interview in the Daily Telegraph newspaper.  Harry, it seemed to me, was extremely brave to open up and tell the world that he had suffered from mental health issues for over 20 years, ever since his mother...