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It must be spring time! Permission to take the space to slowly re-emerge from winter hibernation 😊🌳🌸🙏
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Writing Friday!
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Distant, fading, dissipating.
The glitter gone; eviscerating
Invincibility.

Everything must go.

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The end to another full client week, doing what I’m trained to do as a psychotherapist and counsellor. There’s no time here for an existential crisis about the value of therapy… 😉

Going into the weekend with a heart full of ‘good enough’. Say it with me folks 😊🙏

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Maintaining the integrity of therapy - what it is & how we do it, is arguably even more essential in difficult & uncertain times. The ethos & ethics of psychotherapy + counselling needs to be preserved for us to keep existing as a profession, & for our work to have meaning.
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Call me cynical, but I’m kind of loving how the phrase ‘portfolio working’ is being used as a groovy, plush term to cover up the lack of paid jobs in our profession 😏
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Welcoming 2026 with a new introduction 😊🙏

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‘Hope reflected back’
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Ahhh, thanks so much for this. Sorry for the late reply - am on holiday slow mode - but hoping your holiday was okay and wishing you the best for the new year 😊💜🙏

Yeah, we have a few here frequenting our South London ponds 😊

🎙️ New podcast ep!

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‘Winter view’
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Christmas Day Heron in Wandsworth Common 😍 .

Ahhh, can’t help but think of myself as a trainee all those years ago, sitting on the pond, reading ‘Counselling for Toads’! As wise as Heron is, I don’t think I’ve ever become quite so regal…night owl is here to stay🦉

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Finally found a hat to match my rosy cheeks! Happy Christmas, folks🎄🥰

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the holes in your heart, the pain in your soul. You exist and you matter.

From this freak to another, wishing you a peaceful Christmas 🎄🌟

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To every human being out there - you deserve to be here, and you deserve - if not now - one day, to feel love and happiness. No matter who you are, what you’re going through or have gone through,

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processed, and paid attention to a number of endings, and I am welcoming even more light as we approach 2026.

The chair is empty, but the therapist endures!

Hoping all you hardworking souls out there have some time off over Christmas, and see you on the other side 🩵🤍

holiday period, and a legit Irish pub with music is very much needed 👍 🎶

Some of you will know that it’s my birthday on Sunday,which is the Winter Solstice.I’ll be thinking about renewal & as I said to my supervisor, am finishing this year in a very grounded and stable place. Have worked through,

Got a few admin bits done after my last client, and then I’ve come to our new Irish bar The Rattlin’ Bog in Clapham to celebrate the holiday. I love my work, but I like to have a rest too! It’s nice to support local business as a I enter into the

And… that’s a wrap!

Officially finished client work to take a well-earned Christmas break - off for 3 weeks ☺️ 🎄 🙏 .

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4/ article in her opening note,but is also, a talented&sensitive editor who supported me in writing this article.

Thank you folks-not sure “enjoy”, is the right word,but I hope it’s in some way a useful contribution to what is a rather scarce amount of literature, on this topic.

3/ lot of different things, and although it’s based on autoethnographic reflections, as always, I try and keep my writing relevant to real-life things that have affected so many people over the past few years.

Sending my gratitude to Katy, the editor, who not only mentions the

2/ through to the present day, touching of themes of grief, loss and change. With Wes Streeting recently launching an enquiry into mental health diagnosis, and his vocal musings around the rise in those seeking help, the timing of this article seems pertinent. I touch on a

1/ Great to be in the New Year’s edition of Therapy Today magazine, with an article that meant a lot to me to write. It’s the one in the top right-hand corner on the front: page 56, ‘Our Profession Post-Pandemic’. In it, I cover many things around the time of 2020,

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Book in front of an ornamental owl with a pink cake in front with candle. The book title is: Relational Ethics in Psychotherapy and Counselling Private Practice Solidarity, Compassion, Justice CAZ BINSTEAD AND NICHOLAS SARANTAKIS (published by Routledge)

What with being the ‘night owl counsellor’, I do actually have an owl in my consulting room 🦉 … here we are together, celebrating this little book’s 1st birthday 🎂 😊 🎉 🥳

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Memories of youth 🎶

The first time I saw them was the Brighton Centre, but this was a whole new scale - Radiohead at the O2, yeah! 👌