We have been evolving as a species for approximately 2 million years & around 10,000 years ago we started eating grains and dairy. In the past 100 years farming has become industrialised on a large scale, leading to factory farming methods and a huge input of pharmaceuticals and pesticides. I first became interested in how evolution impacts our health and well being 13 years ago when I was pregnant with my first child and wanted to know how we have evolved to give birth. I f

If I ever a spare 5 minutes, spending it watching a short video from the School of Life is always a valuable use of my time. I love these films - they help to explain so much about counselling and our implicit human nature and normalise so much of our mixed up emotions. I watched this one yesterday - Anxiety - that awful underlying fear that drives so much of our thoughts, relationships and behaviour. It's such a primal emotion & one that's often difficult to get under contr

According to research, approximately 8 out of 10 people are better off after therapy than the average person who does not have therapy and the more sessions you have, the more benefit you will receive - so more therapy = more effective. But what if you can't afford to spend an indefinite amount of time in therapy? Well, 10 sessions with me as your therapist (costing £400) will usually get us to a point where we have a good depth of understanding about your problems - where th