If you have heard the term PMDD and are trying to understand what it actually means — for yourself, or for someone you love — you are in the right place. Premenstrual dysphoric disorder is a condition that many people … Read more

If you have lived with PMDD for years and something has started to feel different — symptoms shifting in timing or intensity, new experiences arriving alongside familiar ones, a sense that the pattern you thought you understood has changed — … Read more

One of the most disorienting aspects of being in a relationship with someone who displays narcissistic patterns is the way it gradually undermines your ability to trust your own perceptions. You know something is wrong. You feel consistently dismissed, manipulated, … Read more

The morning battle. The stomach aches that appear at 8am and ease by mid-morning. The teenager who was managing fine, and now can’t get through the school gates, or won’t leave their room. Read more

The word “mutual” appears frequently in conversations about love and relationships — and it gets used in ways that are sometimes vague. A mutual relationship is not simply one in which two people like each other, or one that has … Read more

Every parent of a teenager knows the ground shifts constantly, moods, sleep, friendships, the lot. So how do you tell the ordinary turbulence of growing up from a sign that something is genuinely wrong? It’s one of the hardest judgement … Read more

It’s a thought that arrives with a heavy dose of guilt: ‘my teenager is making me depressed’. Maybe you’ve typed those exact words into a search bar late at night, half-ashamed to admit it. If so, please know two things … Read more

Jealousy is one of the most common presenting themes in couples counselling, and one of the most misunderstood. It is routinely treated as a character problem — a sign of insecurity, immaturity, or a controlling personality — when its roots … Read more

Deciding whether to look into counselling for your teenager can leave you second-guessing yourself. Read more

Watching your teenager struggle, and not knowing the first thing to do about it, is one of the hardest places a parent can be. Read more

Your partner is loving, faithful, and completely committed to you. And yet you cannot stop thinking about the people who came before you. 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

If you have been hurt in past relationships in ways that have left a mark on how you now experience closeness, trust, and the risk of being hurt again — you may find that those experiences are present in your … 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

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