What are the Inner Development Goals (IDGs)?
The Inner Development Goals (IDGs) represent a transformative approach to personal and societal growth, emphasizing the critical role of inner development in achieving sustainable global progress.
Understanding Shame: Insights and Treatment Approaches
Shame is a deeply painful emotion that arises from the belief that one is fundamentally flawed or unworthy. Unlike guilt, which is related to specific behaviors, shame is more about the self and can have a pervasive impact on an individual’s mental health and well-being. Understanding shame and how to address it is crucial for fostering healthier emotional lives.
What is Interpersonal Group Therapy?
Our mental health is intricately linked to our interpersonal experiences, and group therapy offers a collaborative environment for individuals to explore their behaviors, thoughts, and feelings in relation to others. Explore the purpose and practice of group therapy here, to see if you might like to explore joining a program.
Psychotherapy and Soul
The word “Psychotherapy” is derived from the two Greek words: "psyche or psūkhḗ," meaning soul, and “therapeia” meaning “serve” or “attend to”. Psychotherapy therefore literally means; “to serve, or attend to, the soul”.
Exploring and Understanding: Anxiety
Anxiety, a universal human experience for most of us at various points in our lives, is an intricate and multifaceted experience which involves the interplay of thoughts, emotions, and bodily sensations.
In this piece, we will explore and attempt to understand anxiety - the types of anxiety which we may experience, the potential causes and origins, and pathways to responding and overcoming anxiety.
Exploring and Understanding: Depression
‘Depression’ has a long history, and has come to be used as a colloquial term in everyday life - a sense of feeling ‘down’, ‘saddened’ or overall ‘melancholic’ about some particular event, circumstance, or chapter in life. The symptoms of depression may help us understand what is meant by this encompassing term - sadness, fear, anxiety, despair, an overall sense of helplessness and overwhelm.
In this short piece, we will look to explore how depression may be understood from a developmental frame, whilst briefly outlining some strategies for managing and overcoming depression.
What is Integrative Psychotherapy?
Integrative Psychotherapy is a form of psychotherapy That embraces a multi-disciplinary, holistic, tailored approach that specifically caters to the needs of the individual. At its core, integrative psychotherapy begins with the subjective inquiry into one’s own lived world as the basis of understanding how to begin addressing the concerns one is facing.
What connects philosophy, psychotherapy, and culture?
Philosophy has traditionally played a key role in shaping our understanding of human nature, the world around us, and our place in it. It provides a framework for asking fundamental questions about life, such as the nature of existence, truth, morality, and the meaning of life. These questions are also at the heart of psychotherapy, which seeks to help individuals better understand themselves and their relationships with others.
Understanding the Window of Tolerance
The Window of Tolerance is a term coined by Daniel Siegel, describing a state of optimal arousal for daily and social functioning. As a model, it supports us in understanding the movements of our Autonomic Nervous System (ANS), and how we might build regulatory strategies to maintain optimal arousal.