Hope Therapy and Counselling Services
Online and in-person counselling across the UK for individuals and couples, including workplace counselling
Ian Stockbridge
Divorce is one of the few experiences where everybody around you offers an opinion and almost nobody actually asks how you are. There is a solicitor for the legal side and possibly a mediator for the arrangements, but the part … Read more
If you have found your way to this page, the chances are you are weighing something up rather than idly reading, and you would probably rather have a straight answer than a reassuring one. So let us take the question … Read more
The diagnostic picture of autism was built, almost entirely, from studying boys. That single fact explains a great deal about why so many women reach adulthood, frequently middle age, and sometimes later still, before anyone raises the possibility at all. Read more
Most people who look up anger management therapy are not doing it out of idle curiosity. Something has usually happened, a row that went further than either of you intended, a look on someone’s face, a quiet moment afterwards spent … Read more
A great many people go looking for an anger issues test for one of two reasons. Either something has happened and they want to know how worried they ought to be, or somebody has told them there is a problem … Read more
Typing “anger management near me” into a search box is usually a decision that has been building for a while. By the time most people get that far, they have already had the conversation with themselves several times over and … Read more
A great many women reach their thirties, forties or fifties before anyone so much as mentions ADHD, and the suggestion very often arrives from somewhere entirely unexpected, a child’s assessment, an offhand remark from a colleague, an article read at … Read more
You send a message. Then you read it back, and something in the wording seems wrong, and you check whether the tick has turned blue. Or the opposite happens, someone tells you they love you, and instead of warmth you … Read more
Some people leave hospital carrying more than a new baby. They carry flashbacks to a moment they couldn’t control, a memory of feeling unheard, or a fear that won’t settle even months later. This is birth trauma. Research suggests it’s … Read more
When a partner withdraws from intimacy — from the physical closeness, the affection, the emotional availability that a close relationship involves — it can be one of the most confusing and painful experiences in a relationship. The withdrawal is real … Read more