Therapy, also known as psychotherapy or counseling, is a collaborative process between a trained mental health professional and an individual, couple, family, or group. The goal of therapy is to address and overcome emotional or psychological challenges, improve mental well-being, and facilitate personal growth and development. Therapists use various therapeutic approaches and techniques to help clients explore their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, ultimately leading to positive changes in their lives.
This is why I do the work I do. This is why I volunteer. This is what healing looks like. In therapy, we’re trained to hold space.To sit in silence.To stay with someone in their pain without needing to fix, advise, or rescue. But you don’t have to be a therapist to save a life.You… Read More Holding Space Can Save a Life
What you’re experiencing is a form of persistent intrusion and psychological harassment, often cloaked in family dynamics but driven by control, obsession, and unresolved envy or rivalry. Stalking, Obsession, and the Need to Control Your Life** “Why is she still interfering?”You’ve asked it a hundred times.You’ve blocked, distanced, protected your peace—and still, she watches. Still, she interferes.… Read More **When Family Crosses the Line
When someone opens up about their pain, especially the kind that lives deep in the heart—shame, grief, trauma, despair—our natural instinct is to fix. To offer advice. To find a silver lining. To reassure them that it’s “not so bad.” But while those reactions may be well-intentioned, they often miss the mark. What people in pain… Read More “I Hear You”: The Healing Power of Bearing Witness Without Fixing.
I’ve been through every kind of abuse you can imagine:👉 Financial👉 Emotional👉 Psychological👉 Physical And at some point in your healing, you sit with the most painful question of all:“What kind of cruel, emotionally stunted person was I living with?” People ask me, “But what did you see in him?”I’m now asking myself the same thing. But… Read More 🧠 “What Did I See in Him?” – Understanding Abuse Through Psychology and Neuroscience 💔
This weekend was one of those soul-filling, life-affirming weekends that remind me how far I’ve come. Saturday was spent out in the sunshine with a dear girlfriend and my sweet dog Ellie, followed by a fun game of padel with friends and then a lazy, laughter-filled Sunday lunch with friends. As I sat there soaking… Read More 🌿 From Surviving to Thriving: The Psychology of Reclaiming Joy After Emotional Abuse
The Hidden Self: Why Revealing Our True Identity Can Trigger Survival Responses In our journeys through life, many of us wear masks. Not just metaphorically, but as a vital survival mechanism shaped by deep-seated emotions like shame, societal rejection, and trauma. When someone builds a life around hiding who they truly are, the reasons often… Read More The False Self
By Linda C J Turner Therapy There are moments in human relationships that shake us to the core—when truth brushes too close to the skin of someone who has long worn a mask. When that mask starts to crack, the person behind it may not respond with vulnerability, but with vengeance. This is not just cruelty.… Read More 🧠 When They Know You Know: The Neuroscience of Shame, Identity Threat, and Punishment
When working with clients healing from compulsive sexual behaviors, one of the most empowering steps is redefining what sexual sobriety means for them personally. Unlike traditional models that offer rigid rules, a more compassionate, therapeutic approach recognizes that healing is not one-size-fits-all. Each person’s history, traumas, attachment patterns, and relational needs are unique—and so, too, should be their… Read More 🔄 Redefining Sexual Sobriety: A Compassionate Framework for Healing from Compulsive Sexual Behaviors
When treating addiction—whether to substances, sex, food, or other behaviors—many therapists focus on the more visible symptoms: the drinking, the using, the compulsions. But beneath these behaviors often lie unspoken stories of shame, unmet needs, disconnection, and unresolved trauma. One of the most overlooked areas in this exploration is sexuality. As a trauma-informed therapist working at the… Read More 🧠 The Link Between Sexuality and Addiction
The Psychology of Closure Before Divorce#HealingAfterAbuse #FreedomIsNear #LettingGoGracefully There comes a moment on every healing journey when the emotional fog begins to lift. You’ve cried.You’ve screamed in silence.You’ve whispered prayers into pillows and begged the universe for peace.And now… you feel it. The shift.The clarity.The quiet power of being done. Not done out of bitterness,but done… Read More ✨ Tying Up Loose Ends:
