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Resources to Support Your Mental Health

Discover insightful articles designed to empower, educate, and inspire you on your path to improved mental wellbeing

Our Helpful Articles page offers a selection of expert-written content covering a range of topics, from managing anxiety and improving relationships to understanding the benefits of therapy. These resources are here to guide you in making informed decisions about your mental health.
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Is Your Relationship Causing You Stress?

Perhaps nothing is as important in our lives as our relationships with other people.  It has often been said that a happy family is the key to success.  Often we can get much joy from our memories of the good
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Birmingham Counselling Services

Anger Management CPD (Continuing Professional Development)

Anger Management Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for Counsellors/ Professionals [BACP Endorsed for Counsellors] 2 day course inc. lunch and workbook Central Birmingham June 9th and 10th 9:30-4:40 £247 – Click to book Citizen Anger Management CPD Counsellor and Professionals Training
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Right Here, Right Now! CPD Workshop for Counsellors – June 25th

Hello! We just wanted to tell you about an exciting CPD workshop that is coming up on 25th June in Birmingham for only £20.  It is an improvisation day for counsellors and psychotherapists (including those in training).  It’s from 10:00
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The Journey

a poem by Mary Oliver One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began through the voices around you  kept shouting their bad advice– through the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug
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Combating Anxiety: The Alternative Way

We all have feelings of anxiety from time to time.  Perhaps you break out into a cold sweat when you have to deliver a talk before a group of people, or perhaps you become nervous when you have to take
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Deepening Your Practice with ILIRA Expressive Arts

Deepening your Practice in Person-centred Expressive Arts 27th – 29th May 2016 Friday eve 6.30 – 9.00pm Saturday and Sunday 9.30am – 4.30pm £150 This weekend workshop is for anyone wishing to deepen their practice and use of person-centred expressive
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Let Me Grieve My Way

By Suzanne Burgon Death is a natural part of life – few of us will get through our lives without encountering bereavement and the pain of grief. Society does not like death and it is little talked about. When it
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Imagining Your Way to Stress Reduction

It might have begun with a picture in your mind’s eye of a sea-shore at dusk.  You could see the large blue waves rolling towards the shoreline, the pristine sand in the foreground, the sun gently setting in the west. 
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The Summer Day – a poem by Mary Oliver

Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean- the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
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In the Client’s Chair by Geni Hall

In the Client’s Chair When I first started my course, I was excited with the content learning from theory and modalities to understanding behaviours and thought formation. We took part in role playing scenarios and that was all quite light
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