Were you the responsible one growing up? Learn how parentification shapes schemas like self-sacrifice, and how schema therapy can help heal these old wounds

Always expecting the worst? Learn how the pessimism and vulnerability to harm schemas drive chronic worry, and how schema therapy in Thornbury can help.

Feeling left out as the weather warms up? Learn how the social isolation schema works and how schema therapy can help.

Grief isn't only about death. Learn how schema therapy helps make sense of ambiguous loss, estrangement, relationship endings and grief for a life that could have been.

How our body stores trauma after a crime, what counselling at The Felt Sense looks like, and how EMDR can fit in alongside police and court processes.

Learn the three types of boundaries (porous, rigid and healthy) and how DBT skills like DEAR MAN and FAST help you say no without the guilt.

A novel take on Dialectical Behaviour Therapy’s HALT, to explore how neurodivergent adults experience vulnerability to intense emotions differently to neurotypical folk

A schema therapy guide to the four communication styles, why assertiveness feels so uncomfortable, and where these patterns stem from.

A guide to why everyday tasks can trigger shame, and what Schema Therapy, Intersectionality and Brené Brown's shame research can teach us about it.

Most of us meet attachment theory backwards, taking a quiz and walking away with a label like "anxious" or "avoidant" without much sense of what's actually driving it. This piece unpacks the attachment system underneath those labels, how it forms, why it looks so different from person to person, and what schema therapy offers in regulating an activated attachment system,

Spoon theory explains invisible exhaustion in a way almost anyone can relate to. Read on to explore its origins and why it resonates so deeply with neurodivergent brains.

What is the happy child mode in schema therapy, and why does it feel so hard to access? Learn what blocks, as well as simple ways to reconnect with your own sense of playfulness.

Task paralysis, mental paralysis, and decision paralysis are actually distinct experiences. Here is a guide to telling them apart from an ADHD and executive function lens.

Every human is born with the same five emotional needs. Here is a dialectical look at what happens when they're not met, and how to start meeting them now.

Why neurodivergent people develop harsh self-criticism and unrelenting standards: a schema therapy look at the inner critic underneath.

What masking in autism and ADHD actually looks like, why it's so taxing, and how trauma-informed therapy can help you carry it differently.