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Poems and short stories by students from our Cognitive Behavioural Therapy diploma Year 1 Reflection Already had a student year, under my belt, But I didn’t have confidence, nervous I felt. I’d previously considered ACT, chose another path… I have to admit now, I know that was daft.   I’d opted for Level 10, success […]

The use of communication through drawing therapy when words are too hard… This article is a case study about a young client struggling with anxiety. It discusses how he and his therapist found a way to communicate with one another through the use of drawing therapy. Jake and his overwhelming anxiety Jake was too young […]

One Tuesday in January two thousand and twenty, I went along to a new club, thinking I knew plenty.

Frank didn’t do feelings. He was a man at all times. Anger doesn’t count as a feeling, Frank did anger.

One of my favourite things about counselling is the serendipity of working through a problem or difficulty with someone only to discover there is a big lesson in there for me…

Age, occupation, interests, culture, and religion. We use all of these or none of these to connect to another.

Once upon a time there was a young girl who embarked up the COSCA counselling course at ACT Counselling and CBT Services. She wanted to climb the magic…

There is so much noise. It is deafening. Communication is in overload. We have a global catastrophe here and now.

We empathise with the hard end of human suffering on a consistent basis. For some Therapists/Professionals, this might be daily…

The ACT Counselling Services Team are looking forward to the delivery of our 1 day ‘Introduction to the Theory and Practise of Cognitive…

The ACT Counselling Services Team have delivered several 1 day CPD events on ‘Working with Narcissistic Personality Disorder…

The ACT Counselling Services Team will shortly be delivering a 1 day CPD event titled ‘Borderline Personality Disorder, Neuroscience and Psychotherapy’…

The ACT Counselling Services team are currently travelling around Scotland delivering a 1 day training event on John Bowlby’s Attachment Theory…

With CBT in Groups, where clients are given the opportunity to work with their counsellor on a 1:1 basis regarding the substance…

It is a well known fact, and yes you have probably read or heard it before that Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)…

Our brain – the organ that holds the door to a complex world of cognitive and emotional functioning; shaping our every day lives…

The ACT Counselling Services team have had 2 insightful weeks delivering inputs 6 and 7 of the ‘Practising Schema Focused Therapy’ course…

The ACT Counselling Services Team have been developing and delivering a new input as part of the PG Diploma on Personal Construct Psychology (PCP)…

Imagery Assessment was the input for the ACT Counselling Services ‘Practising Schema Focused Therapy’ course yesterday evening…

Last night was the very first evening of the new ACT Counselling Services ‘Practising Schema Focused Therapy’ — an approach by Jeff Young 10 week course…

So what do we mean by ‘rules.’ What we mean is ‘Rules for Living.’ A rule for living is the behavioural adjustment that a child makes in order to cope…

We need to shift away from “labelling” or diagnosing mental health problems in children and move towards “case formulations…

In the 10+ years that I have known my wife she has always been involved in helping people in some way, both in her professional life as well

Children and mental health is an interesting and diverse topic and when thinking about the shaping of the personality during childhood in our last blog…

When is the best time to introduce a relapse prevention plan? Well, regardless of the goal, how do you keep going with the plan and not give into…

Gestalt Psychotherapy gives us great insight and power and gives us the ability as human beings make sense of our lives. With this in mind, let’s reflect…

Albert Ellis who as many of our readers will know was the founder of Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy (REBT), one of the approaches that influenced…

Our attention turns to Relapse Prevention Therapy and the models used within it. Relapse Prevention and Management techniques should be skilfully passed…

Negative thinking affects all of us. We have designed our own Psycho education process that can help identify, clarify and evaluate unhelpful thoughts…