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In-Laws and Family Boundaries: How to Protect Your Relationship

Difficult relationships with in-laws can create tension, resentment and conflict within a couple. Explore how to set healthy family boundaries, communicate more effectively and protect your relationship, with support from Sara, a couples and individual therapist offering therapy in London and online.

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Difficult Relationships With Parents: Understanding the Impact on Adult Life

Do you feel guilty, anxious or emotionally drained after spending time with your parents? Explore why family relationships can remain difficult in adulthood and how psychotherapy can help you find a way forward.

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Depression and the Search for Meaning: An Existential Perspective

Depression can leave us feeling disconnected from ourselves and the world. An existential perspective explores meaning, identity and how psychotherapy may help us find new ways forward.

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What is Gaslighting & the signs to look for?

Gaslighting is form of psychological manipulation where someone makes you doubt you your own experience, perception or memory of an event. Gaslighting can be incredibly subtle and sly, and over time it has the power to erode your confidence in your own reality. This can lead to feelings of confusion, anxiety or co-dependency on the person who is gaslighting you. We can also say it is a form of emotional abuse if it becomes chronic and repeated.

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What is mental health?

Mental health how our mind feels and functions on a daily basis. The state of our mental wellbeing will impact how we think, feel and behave. The types of thoughts, feelings and behaviours we tend to engage in will determine how we handle stress, relate to others and make decisions.

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Family issues: Enmeshment + Loss of boundaries

When we are experiencing challenges with boundaries in our family units, we can start to think about the phenomenon 'Enmeshment trauma'.

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People pleasing - why do it?

People pleasing is constantly meeting the needs of others at the expense of one’s own needs.

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