Posts by: helen@branch
It's the new school year. Fresh books, shiny shoes and good intentions. Teachers with new lesson plans and renewed passion, students with motivation and goals, and parents with determination and…
So many times in a first session with a client, they apologise for wasting my time or prefix their feeling with the words: "I know I'm being silly but..." or…
I had an amazing weekend recently. The plan had been to go away but we were unable to book what we wanted. We decided to take that money and spend…
This is always a strange time of year in schools; exams for years 10, 11, 12 and 13 and saying goodbye to most year 11s and all 13s. Stress, anxiety,…
I hear this a lot, which is to be expected, I work with a lot of young people and the people around them. Part of growing up is attention seeking…
"Make sure you fill your own bucket otherwise there will be no water to share around." "You are a very important cog in a machine, if you don't look after…
Remember those teenage years, or maybe you are in them now? The importance of image: your outfit, hair, makeup, which bag you wear and what shoes are 'in'. How one…
Something I have talked about with clients and thought about in my own life is re-experiencing loss at later points in life. It is a widely understood thing that anniversaries…
I'm enjoying the last couple of days of the Easter holidays. While I have still seen private clients, I have been away from school work where I see about 15…
I've always been interested in the concept of attachment, it has just always made sense to me. Feeling safe and secure is a base need, we can survive without it…
