Category: Therapy Approaches & Techniques
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ACT for Chronic Pain: What It Is and What It Isn’t
ACT for chronic pain does not claim to remove pain or ask you to doubt it. Here is what it is, what it is not, and how the work looks in practice.
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Values and meaning in chronic illness when your plans have changed
A long-term condition can take the future you were planning for. How values and meaning-making work once the body you built your life around has changed, and how to start small.
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Health anxiety and chronic illness: when the illness is real
When health anxiety sits on top of a real diagnosis, the work is not challenging your fears. It is learning which signals from your body deserve action, and getting your life back from the vigilance.
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Bed-bound with chronic pain: the mental health work alongside the physical
When chronic pain keeps you in bed, the psychological work does not stop. On identity, grief, and what values-led living looks like when the room is the world.
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EMDR online in the UK: does it work over video, and how do you find someone?
Does EMDR work online? What the evidence says, how bilateral stimulation works over video, what you need at home, and how to find a properly accredited EMDR therapist in the UK.
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Your GP dismissed your symptoms: what are your options in the UK?
Dismissed by your GP in the UK? A plain guide to your options: another GP, a second opinion, changing practice, private GPs, NHS Talking Therapies and private therapy.
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Grief and Chronic Illness: The Long Work of Living With a Changed Life
Chronic illness brings a grief no one sends a card for: the loss of the self you were. Here is why that loss is real, and how your values can help you live alongside it.
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Your first EMDR session: what actually happens
Nervous about starting EMDR? A step-by-step walkthrough of the first sessions: the groundwork, the processing, and how you stay in control of the pace.
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EMDR for Medical Trauma: When Your Body Remembers What You’d Like to Forget
Medical trauma is real, and often builds up over time. How EMDR helps frightening medical memories settle, what a session involves, and who it suits.
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EMDR vs. trauma-focused CBT for medical trauma: how to choose
EMDR and trauma-focused CBT are both recommended for medical trauma. Here is how each works, what they share, and how to choose the one that fits you.
