Tim Harvard - Therapy, Counselling & Coaching

28/05/2025

Just got back into Facebook after a year or two off doing other things. Have I missed anything?

07/08/2024

Free speech - use it or lose it.

Mental wellbeing involves freely expressing how you feel. Don't let others choose your words for you.

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02/04/2024

West Cornwall's 'head shed' welcomes spring:)

14/04/2023

My latest blog entry: Is it Therapy or Counselling? It's Both.

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11/02/2022

Latest podcast: A short but interesting chat on the phone with some guy who works with Lord David Blunkett!

Online or face-to-face psychotherapy, counselling or coaching with a degree-qualified therapist.

13/08/2021

How can I prevent mental illness?

Tim Harvard-Sweeting's answer: How ‘subtle’ would you like? There are some great answers here already, but as a person-centred therapist it seems to me that we might be able to get a bit more subtle, and perhaps more profound. I’ll mention only one thing: Not paying attention to what you are e...

11/07/2021

CBT is not for everyone. Many prefer person-centred therapy (PCT) which works from the inside out, and is as individual as the client. Yet everywhere we look it seems that directive approaches like CBT are all that is offered. Clients deserve more choice. Please share, share, and share this:)

Make Providers Provide Options: make Person-centred Psychotherapy as available as CBT

05/08/2019

Fads...

Tim Harvard-Sweeting's answer: I can list a few right away: * CBT (no surprise here, this one is already well appreciated). I’m not at all anti-CBT, but the world is drunk on it, to the exclusion of equally useful approaches, and to the detriment of consumer choice and ultimately to the clients...

09/07/2019

Yet more good evidence undermining the idea of diagnosis-based approaches for psychological distress. "The main findings of the research were:
- Psychiatric diagnoses all use different decision-making rules
- There is a huge amount of overlap in symptoms between diagnoses
- Almost all diagnoses mask the role of trauma and adverse events
- Diagnoses tell us little about the individual patient and what treatment they need"

Researchers conclude many psychiatric diagnoses are scientifically worthless as tools for identifying discrete mental health disorders.

07/07/2019

Person-centred therapy continues to be widely and wildly misunderstood. This is largely because it is often taught in a rush alongside all the other types of therapy that a therapist is supposed to know about. One persistent myth is that other approaches are more effective. Here, Professor Mick Cooper enlightens us:

Are you sick and tired of people telling you that ‘person-centred therapy doesn’t work’’? Does your manager try and convince you that there’s no evidence for the approach? Would you like to scream at the next person who tells you that person centred therapy is ‘just the basics’ and tha...

24/05/2019

Yet another aspect of 'male privilege' that we have been in denial about.

Boys in poor urban areas around the world are suffering even more than girls from violence, abuse and neglect, groundbreaking international research published Monday suggests.