IAS Psychotherapy

23/06/2025

29% of men have been to therapy, compared to 41% of women, according to our Public Perceptions Survey.

Of those who've had therapy, 73% of men and 73% of women say it was helpful.

So what’s getting in the way of more men seeking therapy? 🤔

Stigma, social expectations, and discomfort around opening up all play a part. But attitudes are slowly shifting.

This Men’s Health Month, we’re taking a closer look at how men view therapy, and how those views are changing.

Read more here 👉 https://orlo.uk/XmtKR

23/06/2025

‘If we could stop thinking of the brain like it’s a Rubik’s cube, then perhaps we would have more capacity to talk about what’s truly iconic about Gage: that he survived, both as a body and a person’ https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-myth-of-phineas-gage-affects-brain-injury-survivors

23/06/2025

On Growing up a Multi-Heritage Child: A Reflective and Creative Exploration

What did the world reflect back to you as a multi-heritage child?

This one-day in-person workshop is for BIPOC with multi-heritage backgrounds who want to explore early experiences and reconnect with their inner child through creativity, small group work, and shared reflection.

We’ll look at how our sense of self was shaped by the environments we grew up in — including the subtle (and not-so-subtle) messages received from family, culture, and society.

🗓 Saturday 5th July 2025
🕙 10am – 4pm
📍 The Wheatley workshop room, The Engine Room, Tottenham Hale, London
🎟 £130 for BAATN members | £180 non-members | £200 organisations

Book here: https://www.baatn.org.uk/on-growing-up-a-multi-heritage-child-a-reflective-and-creative-exploration/ #!event-register/2025/7/5/on-growing-up-a-multi-heritage-child-a-reflective-and-creative-exploration

Facilitated by Mary-Claire Wilson, psychotherapist and group facilitator.

23/06/2025

ℹ️🌿 WHAT IS RETRAUMATIZATION ANYWAY? |

Working with trauma can be complex, intense, draining, energizing, rewarding, and invigorating all at the same time. It is hard work, but it is so rewarding to see clients move out of the grips of their past into the expansion of their present and future.

One thing that makes trauma treatment so intense is the connection between our past and our present. It is easy for clients to lose connection to their present and slip into their past.

We spend a great deal of time helping clients develop the skills needed to explore their past while staying in their present. You might have heard the phrase, “separating the then from the now”. It is a very common phrase used in trauma treatment circles, and it can be helpful to clients who don’t register the difference between “then” and “now.”

Read the Full Article: https://traumatreatmentcollective.com/what-is-retraumatization-anyway/



📷: .trauma, Instagram

05/06/2025

What we want is quick, clever fixes. What we need is quite different: the ability to tolerate intolerable feelings, to sustainably change and grow

03/06/2025

What is existential therapy❓

Find out more 👉 https://orlo.uk/dL2Vo

03/06/2025

The shift that reveals everything: Why menopause is often the moment neurodivergent women see themselves clearly. Read more from counsellor Emma Page ⬇️ http://ow.ly/RGHc106a8Lk

03/06/2025

In this short video, UK filmmaker, writer & artist Andrew Lavers introduces the magic of blackout poetry in transforming found words into fresh meaning. Inspired by Austin Kleon, Lavers shows how this form can break creative blocks, spark new ideas, and turn the ordinary into art.

https://psyche.co/videos/reignite-your-creative-fire-with-blackout-poetry-the-art-of-framing-whats-already-there

19/05/2025

The Government has announced plans to expand Mental Health Support Teams to reach all pupils by 2030.

But around 730,000 children each year could still miss out on the support they need.

Without trained school counsellors in place, many young people will continue to fall between the gaps.

Read more 👉 https://orlo.uk/v7bQe

19/05/2025

Breathwork changed my life, but I heard the sceptics. Several studies later, I’m more convinced than ever of its benefits. https://psyche.co/ideas/i-was-sceptical-about-breathwork-so-i-did-my-own-research

17/05/2025

Far from cultural add-ons, these traditions reveal how Western psychology’s assumptions about mind, health, and healing may be too narrow to serve a diverse world.

16/05/2025

"Forgiving one’s mother is a particularly difficult task, because without mother love a child has to invent everything from scratch. For women especially this becomes an exhausting enterprise. How to be female, how to love, how to be a mother (or whether to avoid motherhood in order not to repeat history) become issues that can haunt one for decades."

https://lithub.com/what-does-it-mean-to-forgive-your-mother/?fbclid=IwY2xjawKUBHRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETBMd3REWmo2VnNyMGtROFhVAR6zXd2X2-4MJ8r8p03J-dlrZ1uL8gjacBC9y4Gw90S1Q0BKEyuceotsjeGdsQ_aem_d1KmulmHckCoFRRgDqvF0A

My artistic mother, Cass (short for Carolyn), began drinking and being abusive when I was on the threshold of puberty. Although Betty Ford’s public admission of alcohol and substance abuse would be…