LOSING OUR JOB AND ITS EFFECT ON OUR SELF ESTEEM

Posted by admin 8:55 pm, 25 February 2015

In the last month I have come across a few of clients at Mindright who have been either made redundant or have lost their job. I have seen how this impacts severely one’s self esteem even though redundancy has been explained he individual always seems to internalise and personalise the loss...

Emotion Coaching

Posted by admin 1:49 am, 23 February 2015

So often we see families at Mindright where the parents have the best intentions of being supportive and loving towards their children but are feeling frustrated that they just don’t understand why their children are acting in certain ways. Sometimes their children are throwing tantrums, acting...

The Neurobiology of Attachment

Posted by admin 12:28 am, 15 February 2015

It becomes important, as clinicians, to understand what’s happening in our brains, ours and our clients, in the therapeutic relationship, to understand what attachment theory and research over the last 50 years and modern neuroscience of the last 20 years are telling us:

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ADDICTION AND ATTACHMENT PART 2

Posted by admin 12:45 am, 3 February 2015

As discussed in last week’s blog difficulty overcoming ineffective attachment styles (Ainsworth, 1989) can leave certain individuals vulnerable to addictive compulsions as compensatory behavior for their deficiency. Many theorists have attempted to explain addiction and alcoholism and its...