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How My Brain Works This piece was written by : Barbara Koltuska-Haskin, Ph.D. and featured in Psychology Today. Please find a link to the original article below and if you’d like to make your own milk kefir drinks and smoothies, please send me an email. Why Kefir Is Good for Your “Second Brain” Kefir isContinue reading “How my brain works”

I’m very excited to say that there is now a community, non profit counselling service in the heart of the Happy Valley of Hebden Bridge. I’ve always felt extremely strongly that good, professional counselling services shouldn’t only be available to those that can afford them. It’s really important that we are taking care of theContinue reading “Dialogues Low Cost Counselling Service officially launched”

At specific times of the year, difficult feelings (whilst they may be always present), can be triggered by additional pressures that are hard to avoid. If you haven’t enjoyed the best relationship with your mum, you might be experiencing painful feelings of loss and abandonment associated with that missing relationship. You might look at others’Continue reading “Mother’s Day”

I’m not able to get into the office today, we’ve had a lot of snow. If you’re due to have an appointment today, I’ll be in Touch to re schedule asap. Keep warm, stay well and have fun with it if you can. It’ll be gone before we know it. Warm wishes, Jo

I’ve made it my intention to post insights or blogs more frequently this year because I’ve wanted to reach out to as many people as possible and now with my private practice thriving and moving into supporting fellow professionals with my clinical supervision practice it feels like a good time to forge ahead and makeContinue reading “Some exciting news…”

Very inspiring watch.

I wrote a blog the other week about how to cope with anxiety. It got me thinking about times in my life when I feel, in retrospect, anxiety really held me back. It’s not always easy to see at the time or to know what to do. I’m not sure I always realised at theContinue reading “Is anxiety holding you back at work?”

However inevitable death and dying are the hole left by the loss of someone you love can be immeasurable and the feelings overwhelming. Grief can be complex depending on the circumstances and relationship dynamics around the death and for each person the length of time to process grief is different. It can help to createContinue reading “Coping with grief”

Most people experience some form of anxiety at some time in their lives. The feelings of anxiety that you’re experiencing are your body’s physiological response to a perceived danger. The feelings are very real regardless of whether there is actually a real danger in that moment or not. Your body is remembering and is perceivingContinue reading “Coping with anxiety”

Are you looking for a new clinical supervisor in 2023? Many of us stay with the same supervisor for years and there’s comfort in that however, the benefits of changing supervisor are enormous when we think about developing new approaches to our work, continuing professional development and exploring new opportunities. If you feel like youContinue reading “Supervision”