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Dr Aaron Balick will be speaking at our upcoming Interpretation Conference alongside Patrick Casement and Maggie Turp. His topic is "Using the Relationship in Therapy: What makes a relationship with “me” so special?"

We interviewed Patrick to talk to him on the topics of his work, his life, and his feelings around the direction of therapeutic practice. Learn from one of the greatest minds in our profession, whose career was rich with experiences and whose made it his mission to continuously be 'learning from life'.

When it comes to counselling, understanding your client is key. Young people are often in a very different mental space than adults, due to the physiological and cultural specifics of adolescence.

Boarding School Syndrome is not a medical category, but a proposal that there is an identifiable cluster of learned behaviours and emotional states that may follow growing up in boarding school, which can lead to serious psychological distress.

What is dissociation? Why does dissociation happen? How can we help our clients who dissociate? This article looks at dissociation and its relationship to trauma.

The following article was is based around Dr Phil Mollon's seminar hosted in February 2016 titled "The Disintegrating Self: Understanding and working with adults with ADHD and/or Autistic Spectrum traits". It was written by our guest blogger Andy Darling. Here we look, in particular, at ADHD.

Suicide is the biggest killer of men under 45 in the UK. One in four people who kill themselves have been in contact with mental health services – this means three out of four have not.

Joy Schaverien is an illustrious figure in psychotherapy - her work has involved teaching and training as a lecturer, long-term work with the NHS, and is the author of several books.

Bernice Sorensen is one of the foremost experts on issues pertaining to only children on personal, cultural, and social levels. She has researched how the only child develops, and the lasting effects that being an only child can have in adulthood.