Our Blog
Thank you for visiting our wellbeing blog, anyone who is or has been associated with krysallis is welcome to submit a blog for our website. It may be about your personal experience of mental health or support, or perhaps strategies that have helped you or others that you want to share. Please contact krysallis with your blog or suggestions.
Let’s talk about depression…
Have you ever been so completely overwhelmed and felt that you can’t cope, that you just can’t go on? Worthless, hopeless, hating yourself, believing that things will never get better, you will never feel any better than you do right now? The emotional pain is...
Can we help?
Are you worrying about your gambling or someone else’s gambling? Do you find you are preoccupied, that you are struggling to focus on other aspects of life, do you feel embarrassed, guilty, alone or isolated? Is it impacting on your mental health, your wellbeing, your...
Do you really care?
I originally began training as a counsellor with the goal of helping at least one person to feel like someone actually cared about them. I had known what it felt like to live in a world with millions of people yet feel like nobody cared and it hurt to think of others...
What if we just let anxiety be?
In a recent therapy session I asked what I should do to manage my intense feelings of anxiety and panic. My therapist responded “stop trying”. I did not understand, surely I should do something, utilise some CBT strategies, relaxation techniques …… My therapist...
CHANGE.
‘Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.’ Rumi Children are raised on tales of change and transformative happy endings. Clark Kent becomes Superman to combat crime. The fairytale frog is kissed into a prince...
Counselling or cosmology…?
A colleague recommends Laurence Krauss’s book ‘A Universe from Nothing’ as a mighty good read. The science – all string theory and dark matter - is a challenge to one whose physics never progressed beyond refracted light. But the cosmology is little short of...
Embrace the unknown
Living with uncertainty is an emotional quicksand, the cold hand of anxiety grabbing you in the gut. And yet it’s an unavoidable part of life: we ought, by rights, to arrive on this earth with an inbuilt way of handling it. From world affairs to 2017’s hottest-tipped...
Small changes pay high dividends…
Come January, it’s customary to contemplate our own transformation and plan to become the best possible version of ourselves. In the dazzle of New York fireworks and champagne one can easily succumb to resolution overblow. In 2017 we promise ourselves, we shall...
Time to banish our internal scrooge…
It’s the season to be jolly, to banish our internal Scrooge and put on hold, just for now, the negative of a dark year in world affairs. It’s a season above all, for children, for the magic they both bring and treasure. It’s hot-chocolate heartening to hear of a 10...
The time of our lives…
Move over, Dr Who…we are all time travellers of one tense or another: counselling sessions resonate with reflections on the past dramas and delights that have shaped our clients’ lives. Therapy can be part archaeology – sifting through old experiences to explore and...
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Whether you are an individual or an organisation, we are here to help.
We do this by providing a range of therapies, treatments and wellbeing approaches which best match your individual or organisational needs. Our help is always provided by professionally trained Associates with relevant qualifications and membership registrations. Our services are private and confidential and GDPR compliant.