The Oxford Development Centre Ltd

30/10/2024

"All of us experience challenges as part of life, but it’s about how we approach them. Growth comes from the solutions we discover as part of a deeper process of exploration, transforming the blockages that might hinder us and finding the deep rewards beyond them."

Find out how to start walking the path to grow through your life challenges...

All of us experience life challenges. It’s about how we approach them. Growth comes from the solutions we discover as part of a deeper process of exploration.

23/10/2024

What’s Blocking You?
Understanding Emotional Barriers and Trauma Based Survival Strategies

"On the surface, we may appear confident, successful, even thriving in specialised areas of our lives, but beneath this exterior lies an inner tension. This tension often stems from emotional blockages formed as a response to previous life trauma, creating barriers to emotional flow and self-expression."

Read the full article on Dr Claudia Herbert's website:

https://drclaudiaherbert.com/emotional-barriers-trauma-based-survival-strategies/

21/06/2024

Exciting Developments At The Oxford Development Centre!

The Oxford Development Centre was established in 1998 by Chartered Consultant Clinical Psychologist Dr Claudia Herbert BSc (1st class Hons), MSc, DClin Psy, AFBPsS to provide integrative face-to face and online psychological services throughout the UK, Europe and other countries worldwide.

After over 25 years of successfully running the practice and helping hundreds of clients to find renewed meaning, positivity and purpose in their lives, Dr Claudia Herbert is stepping down from her role as clinical director of the service.

This will enable her to fully focus her energy on facilitating life changing growth and support for her current and future clients. By channeling her resources, she will be breathing new life into the valuable work which has been such a key feature of The Oxford Development Centre’s mission and she will continue to utilise her deep and unique skill set to help clients on their healing journey.

You can learn all about Dr Claudia Herbert’s continuing work as a deep facilitator of further personal growth for both her existing and future clients by visiting her website: https://drclaudiaherbert.com

15/04/2024

Skilled snappers from across the world, who we commissioned for the Positive News Developing Mental Wealth series, tell the stories behind their best shots https://www.positive.news/lifestyle/from-lagos-to-lima-seven-striking-photographs-from-our-trailblazing-mental-health-series/

How does it feel to photograph people about their mental health? Skilled snappers told us the stories behind their best shots

12/04/2024

Two expert research teams, one from University College London and the other from Dementias Platform UK at the University of Oxford, will conduct UK-wide clinical trials to identify blood tests to boost dementia diagnosis https://www.alzheimersresearchuk.org/news/two-revolutionary-studies-set-to-bring-blood-tests-for-dementia-a-step-closer-to-nhs/

The Blood Biomarker Challenge will see two teams of researchers conduct UK-wide clinical trials to identify quick and accurate blood tests for diagnosing dementia.

10/04/2024

“I was driven by the need to help others like me understand who they are, why they are.” https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/apr/08/patric-gagne-sociopath-fighting-urges

Patric Gagne has spent most of her life fighting terrible urges. She is also a loving sister, daughter, mother and wife. She talks about her remarkable journey

08/04/2024

'When he said without hesitation, “We must take this seriously,” I was flooded with relief. Over the next few weeks, we explored where my conviction came from. The source was painful, and very private, and led to me making a small pilgrimage to lay a ghost – real or imagined – to rest.' https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/mar/03/when-my-youngest-child-died-i-had-to-find-a-way-to-move-forward-liz-jensen

Somehow I had felt a tragic sense of foreboding, but nothing could prepare me for the loss of Raphaël when it came. By Liz Jensen

05/04/2024

Reading about somebody else’s journey of overcoming PTSD may be useful to help you understand some of the feelings you might currently be feeling if you have experienced a traumatic event in your own life. https://www.oxforddevelopmentcentre.co.uk/ptsd-recovery-case-study/

PTSD Recovery Case Study How Harry overcame PTSD Reading about somebody else's journey of overcoming PTSD may be useful to help you understand some of the feelings you might currently be feeling if you have experienced a traumatic event in your own life. Below, Harry recounts his feelings after he s...

03/04/2024

'"Sleep has a major impact on how old you feel and it’s not only your long-term sleep patterns,” said Dr Leonie Balter, a psychoneuroimmunologist at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and first author on the study.'Even when you only sleep less for two nights that has a real impact on how you feel.” https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/mar/27/two-nights-of-broken-sleep-can-make-people-feel-years-older-finds-study

Beyond simply feeling decrepit, perception of being older can affect health by encouraging unhealthy eating and reducing exercise

01/04/2024

"Spring will come and so will happiness. Life will get warmer"

28/03/2024

What would it take for tales of kindness to eclipse tales of violence and fear and division? Here are three of the catalysts that can help nudge acts of kindness across that chasm. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/04/doom-scroll-kinder-uplifting-internet

It is easy to see the world in a pessimistic light, but by tapping into our innate generosity we have the power to change it, says Chris Anderson, the head of TED

28/03/2024

Utkatasana (chair pose) never looked so good.

A great day of yoga in Boyle Heights - Los Angeles, California - with Uprising Yoga at Extera Public Elementary School.

Thank you for following my work. Have a beautiful day and remember, kindness matters. Always.