Hope Therapy and Counselling Services
Online and in-person counselling across the UK for individuals and couples, including workplace counselling
Lisa Capper
Menopause changes more than the body. For many women, it also shifts something in how they relate to the people closest to them, not through any choice or failure of feeling, but through the same hormonal mechanisms that are changing … Read more
The word rage is the right word. Not frustration, not irritability, not being short-tempered, the full-body, out-of-proportion anger that seems to arrive from nowhere and disappear just as quickly, leaving confusion and sometimes shame in its wake. If you have … Read more
If your anxiety has changed, or arrived for the first time, and you are somewhere in your forties or early fifties, perimenopause may be the reason. Not the only possible reason, but a far more common one than most women … Read more
If you have ADHD and you have spent years watching yourself in social situations, adjusting your tone, slowing your speech, suppressing the impulse to interrupt, performing a version of attentiveness you do not actually feel, you may be masking. ADHD … Read more
The first thing worth saying about ADHD burnout recovery is that pushing harder will not work. The effort that drives someone into burnout cannot be the thing that drives them out of it. Recovery begins when the demands are reduced, … Read more
There is a particular kind of exhausted that people with ADHD describe, not the tiredness that follows a hard week, but something that has weight to it, something that has been building for longer than they realised and does not … Read more
Neurodivergent burnout does not always arrive with a dramatic event. More often it comes quietly, a growing difficulty with things that used to be manageable, a withdrawal from things that used to feel possible, an exhaustion that sleep does not … Read more
Emotional exhaustion is not the same as being tired. It is a deeper form of depletion, one that affects how a person thinks, feels, and functions, and that does not respond to the usual remedies of an early night or … Read more
Overcoming imposter syndrome is not a matter of trying harder to believe in yourself. Most people who have lived with it for any length of time have already tried that, and found that the effort of convincing themselves they belong … Read more
Recovery from autistic burnout is not a straight line, and it does not happen by pushing harder. That much is worth saying at the start. Autistic burnout recovery begins when the demands that caused the burnout are reduced, when genuine … Read more