Counselling and Psychotherapy for Adults: Towards the Centre Therapy in Manchester provides short- and long-term counselling and psychotherapy for adults in the heart of the city. I established Therapy in Manchester in 2011, and for eight years, I worked from the vibrant community of Chorlton in south Manchester, growing and developing this practice. In […]
A phobia transforms anxiety into fear by attaching it to a very specific object or situation. Almost any object or situation can be used to form a phobia – spiders, snowman, buttons, open spaces, enclosed spaces… By transforming anxiety into a concrete fear of a tangible, nameable object that can be avoided, a phobia […]
The Manchester-based author Anthony Easthope asks, ‘How is it that within five or six years the newly arrived [baby] you bring home with you from the hospital has become a person, who speaks your language, shares your assumptions, can go off to school and answer its own name when the teacher calls it out?’ Easthope […]
Many people enter therapy because their day-to-day lives have become disrupted by symptoms such as compulsions, anxiety, depression, feeling stuck, a lack of desire, or painful reminiscences. What Is a Therapy Symptom? We are all familiar with medical symptoms—visible signs like a rash or fever that indicate an underlying illness. For example, a […]