City Road Therapy – Professional face-to-face & online Therapy in London
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In our blogs therapists explain how therapy works plus we hear personal stories from people who have found therapy useful in the past.
In our latest piece, Mark writes about how therapy helped him move through depression and sadness to becoming more positive and resilient.
How therapy works
Having a weekly dedicated time to unpack your feelings, thoughts and experiences can be immensely useful. A therapist is trained to both hear your story and to notice the words you use; assumptions and patterns that may have built up over time. With a toolbox of...
“I know for certain that I’m no longer the person I once was, but I’m now the person I always should have been.”
Mark is 51. He is a successful creative director based in London where he also lives with his wife and two sons. Mark, who is not a City Road Therapy client, sought therapy when buried feelings began to seep into his every day life. Here’s his...
How the panic set in: It took months for me to realise that I was living with anxiety
The consensus is the nation’s mental health has taken a battering during the pandemic. People of all ages are struggling with anxiety, depression, grief both for loved ones and a life lost, workplace stress, family and relationship issues and conflict,...
Establishing structure, meaning and connection will help you weather the COVID-19 storm
Therapy can help you identify where you already have these three elements in your life, and support you to cultivate them where you feel they are missing. The situation with the coranavirus has brought with it stress and anxiety for many of us. A therapy session in...
Common reasons why people don’t seek therapy (and why it’s worth reconsidering)
To start therapy or not to start therapy? That’s a question I imagine many people are asking themselves in 2020. There is a lot going on these days. Global upheaval may spark feelings of fear, hopelessness or what’s-the-point-ness that are new to you. It may...
Going back to school during the pandemic: Listening to children is key after a tough six months
The French call going back to school ‘la rentrée’ and in a normal year the last days of August are filled for parents with last minute purchases and activities; new shoes, school shirts, blazers, haircuts, book bags, and new tech. For those who work in education there...