For those interested in knowing more about trauma read on.   You may not realize that trauma is not just an event, the reason it has such a powerful experience on our lives is that after those experiences are over we have more symptoms than memories. Trauma can cause people to…

There is a common axiom that if you do not know where you are going, you can end up somewhere else. In the fields of psychotherapy and counselling there is a common goal to help others in their human journey.  The process often starts with people gaining insight about themselves…

Often in life there are obstacles that prevent us from living freely or to our potential.  We may not always be conscious of it, but in many cases, it  is connected to forgiveness —  a frequent challenge in life and a common concern for clients in therapy.  While it is…

Have you ever considered how culture and upbringing affect how we act and react in our daily interactions with people?  That is exactly what Karen Horney, a famous Freudian psychoanalyst did.  Her work provides an example of how human beings are formed and sometimes malformed by their relationships.  She believed…