Please see below my journey for you to read out at your talk. I just wanted to write about my journey and my struggles with mental health and the impact of the help and support that was given to me by Diane Pulley. For me as a 35 year old male, its been hard to […]
When I work with clients I often refer to their lives as pieces of a jigsaw and how we need to connect and adjust some of the misplaced pieces. Today one of my clients who has completed the end of her therapy journey made a wonderful statement when she said “I had a jigsaw […]
What is gaslighting?
Everybody enters into therapy for a different reason. This client came initially for counselling and then changed to coaching, when he felt he had dealt with the issues that were holding him back. Sometimes in order to move forward you have to look back initially, to understand the past to then decide and effect change […]
Therapy is something I am passionate about not only has it been my career since 2004 but for me it is the most rewarding and fulfilling job. Can you imagine getting up every day looking forward to going to work to potentially make a difference to people’s lives. Being privileged enough to enter the world […]
What are the five love pots? What is your primary love language? When we understand this we fully understand how to be present in a relationship. 1. Quality time 2. Touch 3. Words of affirmation 4. Gifts 5. Acts of service If your partners primary love language is acts of service and yours is touch, […]
“Working with Di has been an amazing journey, I feel at welcomed and at ease from the very first session! I started seeing her because I was feeling depressed/suicidal and at an all time low…8 sessions later and I have a renewed lust for life and can see a bright future ahead of me! Di, […]
Hi Di its …… I used to see you for therapy sessions. I just wanted to let you know I left my husband the weekend. It started getting really bad again and I din’t want to spend the rest of my life being abused. He will never change. Everything you said was right and I […]
We have to break the cycle many women have of ‘needing’ a man in their lives to ‘save’ them. When it is often traced back, it is the abandoned little girl who never felt loved or accepted, wanted or enough. We as children are unable to deal with these emotions, we don’t understand why we […]
The first stage of counselling involves the client talking through their concerns whilst the counssellor listens and makes sure that they understand. The client needs to feel heard and not judged. With young people this can involve using puppets, paintsor sand. In order to enter the clients world the relevant materials need to be used […]
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