The internet can be both a treasure trove of insightful content and entertainment, and also a source of overwhelming information. That’s why the BTP team has come together to curate a Therapist‘s Corner post for you.

With Spring around the corner, May’s Therapist‘s Corner includes a selection of the best TV shows, books, podcasts, blogs, resources, quotes and memes (both classic and new) that we’ve come across to support you in your therapy and counselling work.

Our goal is to educate, inform and occasionally bring a smile to your face, and make your online experience a little more enjoyable.

🌞Happy reading!🌞

 TV/Cinema

Obsessed with my Muscles

Made in Chelsea’s Miles Nazaire investigates Muscle Dysmorphia, also known as Bigorexia. He shares his own story and speaks to experts calling for increased awareness of the condition – a form of body dysmorphia mostly impacting men, not yet recognised by NHS.

For every 90 papers written on anorexia, there is just one written on muscle dysmorphia.

Watch on Channel 4

Daisy Maskell: Insomnia and Me

According to research by the NHS, hospital admissions due to sleep disorders among young people have almost doubled over the past eight years, and the recent Covid-19 crisis has exacerbated the issue further still.

Daisy meets experts and fellow sufferers to investigate why thousands of young people in the UK are struggling with sleep disorders and insomnia. Gaining tips along the way, she tries a multitude of remedies and treatments in a bid to get a better night’s sleep. We see her explore the roots of her insomnia, with revealing emotional insights into her struggles with her own mental health.

Watch on BBC iPlayer

Retreat

Nurturing and Restoring Self 

An attachment-based retreat for counsellors and psychotherapists

Dates: Friday 11th July – Sunday 13th July 2025
Venue: Down House, Lamberhurst, Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN3 8ET
Your Hosts: Yvonne Settle, Tori Settle and Jane Cato

Held in the beautiful countryside of Kent and led and supported by experienced psychotherapists, you will have an opportunity to welcome in restorative healing and wellbeing. The retreat includes reflection, exploration, ritual, movement, meditation and a chance to be cared for. This is offered through meditation, an experiential group, an exploration of the local countryside, a swimming pool, a hot tub, home cooked organic vegetarian food and a time to rest and be.

Cost: Three meals, snacks, beverages, amenities and activities included.
£450 no accommodation provided
£490 camping pitch for 2 nights included
£530 treehouse accommodation for 2 nights included
£560 shared room for 2 nights
£650 individual room for 2 nights
£680 individual room with ensuite bathroom

Booking: Please email Yvonne infodownhouse@gmail.com  for more detailed information or to place a booking.

Books

“Searching for Normal: A New Approach to Understanding Mental Health, Distress and Neurodiversity” – Dr Sami Timimi

Dr Sami Timimi is a practicing consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist and psychotherapist in the NHS. He has written 40 book chapters, mainly in academic books, on subjects related to critical psychiatry, childhood, psychotherapy, depression, behavioural problems and cross-cultural psychiatry.

Young people are being medicalised for behaviours that might be explained as entirely normal in other parts of the world. Distress has been commodified over many decades by pharmaceutical companies, the media and the psychiatric establishment.

In Searching for Normal, Sami Timimi explores the political and cultural context of these phenomena and presents a deeply humane approach that looks at the person as a whole – their family context, their culture, their personal resilience – and advocates for a reframing of how we think about and treat distress.

“It Begins with You: The 9 Hard Truths About Love That Will Change Your Life” – Jillian Turecki

Relationships coach, and host of the top relationships podcast Jillian on Love reveals nine core truths to self-acceptance and provides powerful self-healing techniques to help us repair our relationship with ourselves and start building the rewarding relationships we deserve.

Blending therapeutic strategies, somatic techniques, client case studies, practical tools, tips, and guiding questions, It Begins With You gives us a roadmap to finally start doing the work needed to love ourselves and find the love we deserve.

“Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess: 5 Simple, Scientifically Proven Steps to Reduce Anxiety, Stress, and Toxic Thinking” – Dr Caroline Leaf

Toxic thoughts, depression, anxiety–our mental mess is frequently aggravated by a chaotic world and sustained by an inability to manage our runaway thoughts. But we shouldn’t settle into this mental mess as if it’s just our new normal.

Backed by clinical research and illustrated with compelling case studies, Dr. Caroline Leaf provides a scientifically proven five-step plan to find and eliminate the root of anxiety, depression, and intrusive thoughts in your life so you can experience dramatically improved mental and physical health.

Dr. Caroline Leaf is a communication pathologist and cognitive neuroscientist whose passion is to help people see the power of the mind to change the brain and find their purpose in life.

“Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion” – Pema Chodron

Comfortable with Uncertainty offers short, stand-alone readings designed to help us cultivate compassion and awareness amid the challenges of daily living. More than a collection of thoughts for the day, it offers a progressive program of spiritual study, leading the reader through essential concepts, themes, and practices on the Buddhist path.

Through the course of this book, readers will learn practical methods for heightening awareness and overcoming habitual patterns that block compassion.

  Recommended Podcasts

“Jillian on Love” 

Jillian is on a mission to teach people how to completely transform their love life, and where you start is by addressing the relationship you have with yourself.

Jillian Turecki is a certified relationship coach, teacher and writer who for 20 years has guided others on journeys toward fulfilling relationships.

Available on Spotify and Apple

“The Thoughtful Counsellor” 

Mike Shook, a 2016 graduate of the PAU Master’s in Counseling program with an emphasis in Clinical Mental Health, now has a private practice in Beijing, China and is the creator and co-host of The Thoughtful Counselor podcast. The Thoughtful Counselor is a podcast that is dedicated to producing great conversations around current topics in counseling and psychotherapy.

Mike Shook views Counseling and psychotherapy as a deeply beautiful and complex process and strives to incorporate the art and science of the field in each episode.

Available on Spotify and Apple

Reminder: Self Care

Which one do you need the most right now?

Infographic – Types of Intimacy

Meme – For a Chuckle

Quote to Ponder

Articles and Blogs

Don’t forget we have a library full of therapy-related articles and blogs on our website. Have a browse, search for something specific, join the BTP community on Facebook.