South Belfast Counselling

05/02/2026

Can today’s crisis in mental health be seen as the result of neoliberalism, the 2007/08 financial crisis and the austerity policies that followed?

13/01/2026

I was bullied for years and didn’t realize until later that it met every definition of trauma. Understanding why bullying works helped me understand how to recover from it.

09/01/2026

Don't drink the poison.

06/01/2026

A "good life" may be made up of more than happiness and meaning. A new book suggests that there's a third vital dimension: psychological richness.

11/12/2025

Is anger building a fortress so it does not have to be experienced?

02/12/2025

How one therapist overcame formative experiences of cognitive dissonance, and how she now supports others to do the same.

20/11/2025

https://www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/warrior-dark-forest-i-believed-there-was-way-through

A.J. Cosgrave – a Psychologist living with Dissociative Identity Disorder – shares extracts from new book ‘If You Knew Me Would You Love Me?’ (Tribes Press).

11/11/2025

Choosing to pause can short-circuit your fight-flight-freeze-fawn reflex and save your connection before it crashes.

22/10/2025

Own your reactions and stand your ground.

24/09/2025

Reinvention invites you to bet on yourself, embrace your own definition of success, and live aligned with what matters now while trusting your ability to navigate what comes next.

18/09/2025

Questioning the shortcoming of diagnosis as it separates the person from their world and detaches their pain from their circumstances.

27/08/2025

The crucial shift in reclaiming your life out of a toxic dynamic is realizing that this isn’t good for you, and, in fact, “this” wouldn’t be good for anyone.