What Anxiety Makes You Responsible For | Mustard Therapy
Discover 4 things that aren’t your responsibility, even when anxiety tells you they are. Learn to let go of control, set healthier boundaries and reduce stress.
Why Boarding School Still Shapes Men’s Relationships as Adults
Boarding school often teaches boys to cope alone. Here’s why that survival skill can quietly undermine adult relationships, and what actually helps.
The Psychology of Chronic Pain | Mustard Therapy
Chronic pain is real, and your nervous system plays a bigger role than you think. A Salisbury psychotherapist explains what actually helps.
What is Blue Therapy? The Therapeutic Effects of Being Around Water
Most of the day, your brain is doing what’s called directed attention, filtering out noise, tracking deadlines, holding conversations in your head before you’ve had them. That takes effort, even when it doesn’t feel like it. Water seems to switch the brain into a different mode, sometimes called soft fascination, where attention is held gently rather than dragged around.
You Are Not Broken: Riding the Trauma Train Podcast Interview
We know not not all trauma originates in childhood but in this podcast interview I discuss the internal resources we have the potential to learn as a child and develop as an adult. I also outline the four pillars of mental health.
AI is Not Your Psychotherapist – Why Chatbots Cannot Replace Real Therapy
Millions of people are turning to AI chatbots for emotional support, but there’s a significant difference between feeling heard and being genuinely helped. A psychotherapist explains why.