Author Archives: North London Counsellor Blog

Billionaire Art? Can Art change the world? Can Art improve the world? Art is personal. We know music, art paintings, objects. They are present and from the past. Childhood shapes. Gallery visits. First time listening to pieces of music remain. … Continue reading →

This article describes a life of shame from a daily dread of anxiety and fear. Not happy reading. Commonly many come to therapy to be changed, fixed, resolved. The idea to wrestle with is that we are created, have experiences … Continue reading →

The English Patient opens and closes with the shot of the desert from a plane looking like the surface of the brain. The English Patient (Count Almasy) has forgotten his name and identity aka Sam. The English Patient tells the … Continue reading →

Amr Abdallah. By Chris Hedges / Original to ScheerPost On the morning Amr Abdallah was killed, he woke before dawn to say his Ramadan prayers with his father, mother, two younger brothers and aunt, in an open field in southern … Continue reading →

LIzzo quits and then doesn’t. To this day we still see people of difference – race creed colour body shape attacked on social media. We appear to find other intolerable. We have to attack to the point where it goes … Continue reading →

Dr Colin Murray Parkes (1928-2024) was one of the prominent personalities in the understanding of Bereavement. Born into loss, this was my path into the helping professions. We met at the London Hospital in the 1980s, where he had set … Continue reading →

Sophie a 25yrs old Eastern European woman emailed me over a period of weeks to start therapy. I would offer her a space: then she would cancel: disappear then recontact some time later. She asked to have the sessions on … Continue reading →

A beginning ….. Sam a private school man presenting with his girlfriend threatening to end their 2 year relationship if he doesn’t speak to someone. He works in the City, and is a Sports Club captain leading a competitve team … Continue reading →

and to continue ……. sitting in front of these lovely private school men is an exercise in an unequal duality. The smooth presentation dominates, an occasional glimpse of the boy behind comes through. Even though the boy is only glimpsed … Continue reading →

To follow on … Private School Adults especially men can come with this presentation: 1. No choice in going to a school miles away from home as a boarder, or living locally as a day student. Family culture informs the … Continue reading →