Psychotherapists and Counsellors Answer your Questions

I find this an incredibly difficult question to answer, and not because answers don't come to mind: genocide, imperial colonialism, global warming, the ongoing pandemic, resurgent Nazism, transphobia,...

I find this an incredibly difficult question to answer, and not because answers don't come to mind: genocide, imperial colonialism, global warming, the ongoing pandemic, resurgent Nazism, transphobia, failing public institutions, militarised police, and on and on. But at the level of the individual psyche, I may be most troubled by what must be a historically diminished sense of our capacity to organise, collectivise and force change.

Disconnection â?? from ourselves, from each other, and from the present moment. So much of my work is about rebuilding those connections in small, practical ways.

Disconnection â?? from ourselves, from each other, and from the present moment. So much of my work is about rebuilding those connections in small, practical ways.

We live in a highly traumatised world such that trauma and survival states have become normalised. Consequently there is a disconnect between our conscious selves and our deepest selves which leads to...

We live in a highly traumatised world such that trauma and survival states have become normalised. Consequently there is a disconnect between our conscious selves and our deepest selves which leads to an array of dis-eases, distortion and imbalance. I am sure we could think of any aspect of our human world today and identify how this is manifested in that aspect. There is also great appetite and energy for beneficial change as well, and we must find a way to maintain hope that things can be better and to fuel that change. We can do this by working at the individual level, which has an influence in turn on the collectives.