The Messed Up Counsellor

Episode 34: Systems: Growing the losses and the gains

In this podcast I look at the systems we live and work in and how they inform our choices. Where are our conflict areas and how can we adapt and grow in a positive and connected way? How does this affect the roles we play in others’ lives and our drive to be a part of something.

Episode 33: Mature ageing; its positives and negatives.

In this episode I discuss how you can become the you that you have always wanted to be and how age can encourage you to simply say it as it is. You can be a glorious person and you can give back to others and the world.

Episode 32: Becoming a podcaster

In this episode I explore my journey into podcasting. I discuss how I got started, how I have developed and grown the podcast, and I share some of the highs and lows of being in the spotlight.

Episode 31: Becoming a Counsellor Therapi

As a supervisor I meet a lot of new counsellors, and part of my role is to guide them through their training and placements. In this episode I share some of the things they talk about and discuss how becoming a counsellor or therapist can be a life changing experience.

Episode 30: Dyslexia

I discuss how I live with Dyslexia and what it does to my world, how it shaped me growing up, and what impact it has on my life both negatively and positively.

Episode 29: Insecurity and growing up.

We take a look at the trials of growing up and what adults can do to help that transition. Take a journey into your past and explore how young people they aren’t too dissimilar to you at their age.

Episode 28: Sensate focusing & getting it on.

In this episode I explore how best to intimately connect and how to make love instead of having sex. What’s the difference? How can you make that intimate relationship strong and lasting.

Episode 27: The things young people tell me.

In this episode we take a journey into their world and discuss how they see it working for them. Who is creating the problems that they face? How can we help them to communicate, understand, and be heard?

Episode 26: Choices and decisions

In this episode I discuss how to turn confusion and inability to choose into real change and progression.

Episode 25: You can’t change them.

Why do we always fall back into unhelpful dynamics in families? Why do we spend so much time and energy trying to change other people? In this episode I explore how to help people accept things they can’t change, and how to find peace with it.