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Sophia Hammoudeh-Mekki MBACP | Integrative Counsellor

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Stay Rooted Counselling

Finding a Therapist Who Can Help You Heal

Therapy can be an effective treatment for a host of mental and emotional problems. Simply talking about your thoughts and feelings with a supportive person can often make you feel better. It can be very healing, in and of itself, to voice your worries or talk about...

Still Face Experiment

Still Face Experiment

Ed Tronick (http://www.umb.edu/Why_UMass/Ed_Tronick), director of UMass Boston's Infant-Parent Mental Health Program (http://www.umb.edu/academics/cla/psyc...) and Distinguished Professor of Psychology, discusses the cognitive abilities of infants to read and react to...

Anxiety

Anxiety

“‘Anxiety is wanting to fix something that isn’t even a problem." Twelve Articles About Anxiety That Will Make You Feel Significantly Less Alone.  This is a quick and easy read into what anxiety can feel like for lots of people....

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The Power of Connection

What is standing in the way of you being present with yourself and others; could may be your repressed anger or your own ego; maybe its fear or your obsession with being ‘right’ all the time, which may be the cause of misunderstandings and conflicts you may find...

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Attachment in Counselling

What is Attachment? Attachment is all about the bonding process we go through as children with our caregiver(s). For most of us, our primary caregivers were our parents. For some, their primary caregivers will be a grandparent or another family member or will even be...