Our popular blog contributor Sarah Luczaj is taking a few weeks away from writing following a bereavement. Our thoughts and hearts are with her and her family, and we wish her all the best.

It’s been awhile since our last major overhaul of the site’s layout and underlying technology, but at last it’s done! Yep, all the same content is still here, and all the same people — we just have a different look.

New concise clinical trials lists and research article abstracts are now available in our medications centre, replacing the comprehensive (but difficult to navigate) set of mental health research abstracts we’ve been accumulating for a few years. If you’re looking for the latest research information on common mental health medications, please check them out and let us know what you think!

With more than one hundred pages of annotated entries covering books and journal articles, our popular mental health research library has been freshly updated and re-organised and now has a new home at CounsellingBooks.com.

Readers continue to tell us that Dr Carver’s article about relationship losers, abusers, manipulators and controllers — and how you can protect yourself from them — rings true. How about you? Have you dealt with someone like this?

If you’re a Twitter user, you’ll know all about how easy it is to keep up with the latest comings and goings of friends, family, and random people you’ve never met. Well, we’re posting notices about all our new articles through the same service, so now you can Twitter-mix our latest news items or Ask the Psychologist replies together with Aunt Edith’s ruminations about her late bus.

A warm welcome goes out to Professor Colin Feltham, who joins the site’s International Advisory Board. As a well known ‘insider critic’ and author of numerous books in the field, including one we highlighted here last month, Professor Feltham’s experience and perspective will enrich and inform the ongoing development of our site.