"Sadomasochistic sex is arguably one of the least understood and most demonised forms of consensual sexuality. How able are we to offer ethical therapy to kinky clients when there is so little awareness of the kink experience?"
Life has aquainted me in the past with ends. I have torn enough pages off the calendar to have marked the passing of close relatives, to have waved goodbye to workplaces and work colleagues, to have shared dinner with them and thanked them for the mantel clock.
2 June Three hours between clients. The sun is shining and it’s a shame to be indoors. The tall front hedge needs trimming and even with my new extendable battery-powered hedge-trimmer it’s a job I don’t relish, fearing one day I’ll over-reach and topple off the ladder
On Tuesday my friend Rachel sent me a text; she was in need of urgent advice. She had had three sessions of therapy following an initial assessment. She had left the last session early, convinced that the therapist was not for her.
She made a successful television career deflating the over-size egos of the rich and famous, and then gave it all up to train as a psychotherapist. Now she’s fronting a new online mental health campaign for the BBC. Ruby Wax talks about her striking career turn
In online virtual worlds like Second Life, people are forming new kinds of relationships and living new kinds of lives outside bodies in entirely re-imagined selves. With one billion people estimated to have a presence in virtual worlds by 2018, isn’t it time the therapy profession started to give the phenomenon some serious attention?
With a basis in neuroscience, attachment theory, and developmental psychology, Lifespan Integration is an innovative new body-mind therapy from the USA that’s beginning to catch on in the UK
Jackie Hendy worked as a school counsellor and hub manager for the Place2Be before joining Right Corecare, one of the UK’s largest Employee Assistance Programme providers, as senior clinical case manager
Rev Dr Gerard Byrne trained as a priest in Rome and a psychotherapist in America before returning to the UK where he is currently director of the St Luke’s Centre in Manchester
The Place2Be works with 146 schools across the UK providing emotional support to a child population of around 47,000. Fenella Quinn joined them as a volunteer counsellor in 2004 and now manages a hub of eight schools in Greenwich
Passionate about social welfare and environmental issues, Sushila Dhall balances her work as a counsellor with refugees and asylum seekers with a career in local politics
Following a first career in teaching, Hugh Clarke joined the Student Counselling Service of London Metropolitan University on placement 15 years ago and is now managing the department
Jane Hetherington divides her working week between an EAP in London with contracts in the UK and abroad and an agency in Ramsgate where she works with clients affected by substance misuse. She lives 200 yards from the sea
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