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When Your Child Struggles with Their Mental Health: How to Support Without Losing Yourself
Watching your child struggle with their mental health can be one of the most painful experiences as a parent. Whether they’re a young child showing signs of anxiety, a teenager navigating overwhelming emotions, or a grown adult facing their own inner battles, it can feel deeply personal, frightening, and at times, utterly exhausting. You want…
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You Don’t Have to Be Falling Apart to Go to Therapy
When we think about therapy, it’s easy to picture someone at breaking point, someone going through a crisis, battling trauma, or barely holding things together. And while therapy is a vital support during life’s darkest moments, it’s also so much more than that. Therapy isn’t just for when everything’s falling apart. It’s for when things…
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Why Relationships Can Trigger Old Wounds – And What To Do About It
It’s one of the more confusing things we experience as humans: you’re in a relationship – maybe romantic, maybe a friendship – and something small happens, but it hits you like a tidal wave. A comment. A look. A cancelled plan. Suddenly, you feel hurt, rejected, angry, or deeply anxious… and you’re not quite sure…
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Why You’re Not ‘Too Emotional’ – Understanding Your Feelings Without Shame
Have you ever been told you’re too sensitive, too emotional, or that you overreact? Maybe it was in the heat of a disagreement, or maybe it was said in passing – but it stuck with you. It’s something I hear often in the therapy room: people carrying shame for simply feeling deeply. Let’s clear something…
Bridget Jenkins Counselling 