LEGAL AND POLICE SUPPORT AGAINST BULLYING

Posted on 27th September 201627th September 2016 by Leona Sears

TO BOOK For ANTI-BULLYING SUPPORT AND COUNSELLING CALL: 07 505 124 933 If you are feeling bullied by anyone it is best to call the police if you cannot defend yourself, if you feel your life is in danger, if you think that the people in authority failed to support you and resolve the issue that is now damaging your health physical, emotional or psychological that is now deteriorating and most importantly if you do have a concrete evidence of a threat, as this is a criminal offence. I have been h...

ANXIETY STRESS MANAGEMENT AND WHY I THINK THE REGENTS PARK IS A GREAT PLACE TO DE-STRESS FOR LONDONERS

Posted on 27th September 20161st October 2016 by Leona Sears

Everyone has their own anxiety stress management methods how to de-stress from the nauseating effects of anxiety and stress generated by the beautiful but at the same time stress hormone pumping London. As a professional, I have an ample of de-stressing methods, but my most favorite de-stressing methods to combat my anxiety are simply walking in the park or looking at the sea. I try to maintain a healthy balanced lifestyle but on busy days when I end up feeling like a pressure cooker and since...

ANXIETY STRESS MANAGEMENT

Posted on 27th September 201627th September 2016 by Leona Sears

TO BOOK CALL: 07 505 124 933 The stress in our environment is combated by our innate and inbuilt system called 'flight or flight' that protects us physiologically from the stress by enabling us to fly away from it or by fighting with it. However, living with a long-term stress and on a chronic stress response override could lead to a repressed immune system and consequently to a development of serious psychological and health issues such as burnout and depression, chronic fatigue, panic attac...

CBT RESISTANT DEPRESSION THERAPY

Posted on 27th September 201627th September 2016 by Leona Sears

TO BOOK CALL: 07 505 124 933 Contrary to many assumptions that a resistant depression is difficult to treat when depressed clients come to see me for CBT depression therapy, I find depression to be the least complicated condition to treat and I am confident that many CBT professionals would agree with me. My preferred method of work is to utilize the Cognitive Behavioural Therapy approach that was developed by Aaron Beck in the US. The Cognitive Behavioural therapy focuses on client's negative t...

COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURAL THERAPY FOR DEPRESSION

Posted on 27th September 201627th September 2016 by Leona Sears

TO BOOK CALL: 07 505 124 933 Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for depression was developed by Aaron Beck (1967). Beck was classically psychoanalytically trained as most of his contemporaries in the early 20th century. However, Beck noticed that his depressed patients improved faster when he focused on the clients' negative thoughts rather than the psychosexual stages of development of the psychoanalytical model and this is how he developed the cognitive behavioural therapy model (CBT). Beck provide...

HOW NOT TO LIVE A NEW LIFE IN THE WAKE OF DIVORCE

Posted on 27th September 201627th September 2016 by Leona Sears

So you got your divorce, but is the grass always greener on the other side of the fence and do you know how not to live your new life in the wake of divorce? Whether you found yourself rejected by your ex-partner, or you are the one who filed for divorce and is now bragging about your happier life as a single person to your unsuspecting friends, the fact is that divorce is the second most stressful life event that can happen in our lives (Holmes and Rahne, 1997). However it important to say, tha...

RELATIONSHIP COUNSELLING

Posted on 27th September 201627th September 2016 by Leona Sears

TO BOOK CALL: 07 505 124 933 Are you having difficulties falling asleep, you might not be able to maintain your sleep, you could be waking up in the morning feeling weighed down by chronic guilt, fear, anger or ambivalence about what to do next with your relationship or marriage? You might also be wondering whether you should try to work through your issues, whether you should break up, or continue, providing that what you and your partner had before, would be somehow restored again. Whatever st...

16 INTERESTING POINTS ABOUT AGGRESSION

Posted on 27th September 201627th September 2016 by Leona Sears

1. The two types of aggression known in humans are offensive and defensive. 2. The hypothalamus is involved in the existence of and periodicity of aggression but is not involved in controlling behaviours. 3. People can learn aggressive behaviours from other people as demonstrated by Bandura (1963) in his social experiments by letting children watch playing aggressively with a doll. 4. Overcrowded places have been documented to onset aggression (Calhoun, 1962). 5. The male hormone testos...

ANGER MANAGEMENT

Posted on 27th September 201627th September 2016 by Leona Sears

. . . anger is an emotion, regulated by the hypothalamus, and it is inevitable for our existence because it enables us to protect ourselves and maintain our integrity. . . . . . the aim of counselling psychology, psychotherapy and anger therapy then is not deleting that emotion from your limbic system but rather exploring the meaning of your anger and various possibilities how to express your anger without causing serious casualties neither to yourself nor to anyone else in your enviro...

ANGER MANAGEMENT FOR AN INNAPROPRIATE EXPRESSION OF ANGER OR AGGRESSION

Posted on 27th September 20164th February 2017 by Leona Sears

An inappropriate expression of anger such as screaming, abusive words use, threats, insults, physical attacks in conflictual situations is an essentially clumsy expression of anger and it can be addressed and solved with anger management. At Westminster Psychotherapy Ltd you will learn how to contain your anger and communicate it with your colleagues and loved ones in a way so that you will be heard and respected but you will learn to communicate your anger in a more controlled manner. The con...