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Practical insights from counsellors across Aotearoa, written to help you make sense of what you are experiencing.
What Did Colonisation Teach You?
When I wrote about poverty, I asked what it taught me. To do, to hide, to carry, to become, to want. Then…
Attachment Styles Explained: What They Are and How Counselling Helps
Attachment styles are patterns in how we seek closeness and respond to distance in relationships, shaped by early experiences and later ones…
Anxiety in Aotearoa New Zealand: Finding Counselling Support
Anxiety is a common human experience in Aotearoa New Zealand, and support is available. Counselling offers a private space to talk through…
I feel like a failure
If you've ever had the thought "I'm a failure." Read this. Maybe it will help.
Anger
Anger is a secondary emotion meaning that others' feelings, such as frustration, lie beneath it.
What Did Poverty Teach You?
In religious class one day, we were asked to talk about the rich and the poor. How the gap grows. What it…
Online Therapy: 10 Reasons to Consider It
Changing the norm of access to counselling through online therapy.
What is Solution-Focused Therapy?
Solution Focused Therapy (SFT) was developed in the 1980s by Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg. The approach, as the name…
What type of therapy do I need?
Not sure what therapy type you need? Learn how to choose a therapist and why the relationship you have with them matters…
Snobs Hill – They Were Not Mine, But I Lived Them
This term in religious studies, the readings took me into Aotearoa's land history: David James’s timeline of land dealings, laws, and schooling…
Aggression: One hidden weakness in our relationship
Aggression comes from hurt and frustration. On the surface, it can appear as anger. Consequently, when the pressure accumulates, outbursts can happen…
CBT – Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
CBT is one of the most effective therapies backed by scientific research that exists today. It is an effective therapy for people…
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