What are the key ingredients in therapy that works in difficult situations? Fact and reason? Or a therapist willing to be with the client in the darkest places where we humans have to admit that we don’t know what the point is, and that we cannot fix it?

Information is power. And children have considerably less information than we do about the world around them.

Once you have taken one step forward, one thing which is certain is that everything will look different. And you cannot see things from that position until you are standing there…

Some young men use the phrase “lack of self esteem”, although in fact the anxiety they experience puts them constantly centre stage in their own heads. Everyone is looking at them, only what they say and think and do matters, and what they say think and do is always visibly “worse” than what everyone else is saying, thinking and doing.

How does catching our own errors and correcting them protect us from stress? Can doing so also protect us from addiction?

Is anger a finite substance that can be let out or kept in, which “goes off” if it is kept in, and feels good and constructive to let out? Is any kind of emotional energy like that?

Consensual Living is a philosophy, or collection of principles, by which families get along together without coercion, addressing everybody’s needs on an equal basis. The basic principles as I understand them are equality, trust and self determination.