So, last Friday afternoon, I arranged to meet someone for an hour where I used my collated skills and knowledge of 3.5 years of training, in an effort to try to address their real life problems and guide them through their psyche ( Read more... )

We had a Workshop of self-reflection for a whole day this week, as part of our Counselling Level 5 Course. We then had to read it out to the group and the tutor, this prompted a lot of tears in some cases but generally showed that we have all come a long way and everyone has their own adversity to overcome. It's just that we are all at different ( Read more... )

*aka RIP - Chris Cornell entry ( Read more... )

It's been a while, some things that I've been concerned about and that have been consuming vast amounts of my time and life ( Read more... )

So, I naively went to watch the European Championship Final for 2016 round my Mum and Dad's expecting a normal night ( Read more... )

I started the next level of study towards becoming a Counsellor today, apparently they do a lot of Personal Development, which is essentially 'self-realisation' at this level.

Now, I know that spiffyfunpants has been doing posts about her first sojourns into social work and apologising for them not being interesting (which I might add, they are!) Here is mine, ( Read more... )