by Martin | Sep 4, 2025 | Adult, couples and families
Psychologists have a requirement to undertake Continuing Professional Education. This can be attendance at courses or seminars, or completing other activities which contribute to continued learning. As Psychology is an ever-evolving field in a phase of huge discovery,...
by Martin | Sep 4, 2025 | Adult, couples and families
New Year is almost always associated with New Year’s Resolutions. Many people wisely use this quieter time of the year to reflect on their lives and consider ways to enhance them in the coming year. They then resolve to do things differently, or – less wisely – to...
by Martin | Sep 4, 2025 | Adult, couples and families
Balancing work and family is no easy feat. Our whole working world seem totally unprepared to be supporting working families. The overt message, through paid maternity leave, subsidised childcare, is that we value mothers in the workforce and want them back. However,...
by Martin | Sep 4, 2025 | Adult, couples and families
Many identify communication as the key to a good relationship. In all my years as a psychologist in relationship therapy I’ve noticed something else… When asked their goal of relationship therapy, most couples sitting in my room will talk to me about improving their...
by Martin | Sep 4, 2025 | Adult, couples and families
Post-natal depression and anxiety is the elephant in the room. Post-natal When a new mother becomes depressed, it affects her and her new baby. Having a new baby is, for most people, the culmination of planning and dreaming. Even if it wasn’t initially on the agenda,...
by Martin | Sep 4, 2025 | Adult, couples and families
To my friends and family; Stop asking me to join your weight loss challenges. “Oh, how I wish to be thin. To look better in the clothes that I am in. To be a size six instead of a ten.” That is a portion of a poem that I wrote in high school. During that time, I was...