Email counselling is notoriously more difficult for counsellors to set and keep to boundaries. Many counsellors I know report that they...

When meeting online, clients often feel able to be more open and are less inhibited - this is known as the “disinhibition effect”...

Email Counselling - unlike face-to-face, video or phone sessions - is all text based. Counsellors and clients never see each other’s faces..

How confident do you feel working with clients from LGBTQ community? Do you ever worry about getting

Relationship counselling can help people see what happens when they argue and what patterns they find themselves in. Does one of you tend to

As the New Year begins I have decided to write a summary of a year in the life of Sussex Rainbow Counselling. The year started with the fir

Talking to other counsellors about pronouns I am often faced with the same questions and confusion: - Do pronouns really matter that much? - Do counsellors n...

With the rise of the hashtag #transally I thought it timely to write a piece on how to be a Trans Ally. The way I see it, a Trans Ally is someone who is cisg...

Traditionally, counselling has always taken place face to face (f2f), and so it seems the default way that counsellors work. Through my experience of trainin...

Many counsellors ask me why I run a service aimed at LGBTQ clients. Some worry this can cause more segregation in society and some state that as counsellors w...

February is LGBT History Month and the theme for 2019 is Peace, Activism and Reconciliation. Every year since it’s inception in 2005, events take place acros...

As the cold face of January sets in, many relationships break down after living through the pressure to be happy at Christmas. In fact, the first Monday in J...

Hello, welcome to my new blog! One of my 2019 goals is to write a regular blog and be more active on my counselling practice’s social media. As the new year ...