Client: A client of a professional person or organisation is a person or company that receives a service from them in return for payment.
I started studying counselling in 2017. From the outset, I have pondered the noun client to describe a person who seeks or engages in counselling. …
In the essay, The Clinic Offers No Advantage over the Screen, for Relationship is Everything (2020) the clinical psychologist Gily Agar discusses the benefits of online therapy. The research on the effectiveness of online therapy found it to be as successful as in-person therapy. …
I was channeling Leslie Jones and her appearance on the last season of RuPaul’s Drag Race all through those US election results.
What a long week for anyone avidly following the American elections. I know for myself it was only a few hours sleep UK time on Tuesday night and…
A month ago I started working from home. I have a waged job and working on studying to qualify as a Cognitive Behavioural Therapist (CBT). That course involved placement practice hours. Life was so busy and I only felt in downtime energy to avoid doing actual study until the deadline…
Buying an item from a big coffee shop chain can be wrought with ethical dilemma
I have been quite loyal to Starbucks. The global market for the coffee shop lifestyle has been pursued by Starbucks with one seemingly on every 2nd city street corner since I first noticed them in…
A few Saturday nights ago I sat through a binge of a lifestyle blogger on YouTube. This YouTuber focuses on unboxing an item, house tours and general flotsam of his life. Watching it is an act of ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response). …
I am from a generation that found the UK Channel 4 of the 1980s a channel of liberation and wish that we still had something similar. In today’s media the story is of the self with you the story rather your story through a different lens.
As a creation, Channel…
I was awake at 5:15am this morning. The cat was jumping around, scratching at my bedside table then running away when I attempted to stop or placate her; an alternative cat and mouse game where I am the cat and she is the mouse.
She wouldn’t let me settle, but…
Recently a comment to a YouTube post of the late Opera Singer Montserrat Caballé singing O Mio Babbino Caro. It focused on her control and style and was quite technical until the last sentence:
Yas Queen…come thru?!?
It is a truly melancholic performance of the Puccini song and yes, she…
