Hope Therapy and Counselling Services
Online and in-person counselling across the UK for individuals and couples, including workplace counselling
You are the one who copes. The one people lean on, at work and at home, steady, capable, endlessly available. But lately something has shifted. You feel strangely numb where you used to feel moved. You are short-tempered with the … Read more
You keep it together, mostly. To everyone else you look capable, even high-achieving. But behind that is a private, exhausting effort, the lists you lose, the deadlines you only just scrape, the way your mind races and stalls at the … Read more
You know exactly what you need to do. You have known for days. The task sits there, quietly important, while you tidy a drawer, check your phone again, or start something else entirely. And underneath the avoidance runs a familiar … Read more
When someone you love dies, the ground can give way. In the middle of that, many people go looking for a map, something to explain what is happening and roughly what comes next. That search often leads to the 7 … Read more
If your child’s results were not what they hoped for, the most useful thing you can do in the first hour is considerably less than you probably want to do. The instinct is to move straight to solutions — clearing, … Read more
You have spent your whole life feeling slightly out of step. You can hold a conversation, do your job, keep things running, but it costs you far more than it seems to cost everyone else, and by the end of … Read more
You know something is wrong. You have known for a while. And yet the thought of leaving feels impossible, not because you do not see it, but because some part of you is bound to this person in a way … Read more
If your exam results brought disappointment rather than the news you needed, the first thing worth saying is that nothing has to be decided today. Clearing will still be open this afternoon. Appeals and resits will still exist next week. … Read more
Most of us use the word anxiety loosely, for nerves before a meeting, for the knot in your stomach before a difficult conversation. So when it starts to feel bigger than that, it can be hard to know what you … Read more
When people discuss toxic jealousy, the focus is most often on what it does to relationships — the mistrust, the controlling behaviour, the damage to the other person. These relational consequences are real and significant. But toxic jealousy also does … Read more