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Reflections

Thoughts arising from our clinical work, nature, relationships, psychological ideas and the ordinary experiences of being human.

A solitary figure on a snowy shore beneath a vast grey sky6 November 2026

Loneliness: when the need for connection becomes an emergency

A classical painting of a mother holding her infant1 November 2026

The Baby World: why intimacy can make adults feel very small

Jean-Honoré Fragonard's painting The Swing, with a woman in a pink dress swinging through a lush garden25 October 2026

The Karaoke Effect: when feeling changes the story

Moonlight illuminating a vast forested landscape23 October 2026

The Sublime Effect: why feeling small can sometimes make life feel larger

Painting of two boys carrying a white-clad figure through a barren landscape21 October 2026

The Bezoaric Effect: why difficult experiences return

A natural-history illustration of a caddisfly larva in its protective case, a pupa and an adult caddisfly 17 October 2026

The Caddis Effect: the protective cases we build around vulnerability

A classical portrait of Medusa with snakes entwined in her hair 14 October 2026

The Medusa Effect: when feeling overwhelms our capacity to think

A traditional painting of a cicada among willow branches and flowers 7 October 2026

The Cicada Effect: when silence is mistaken for resolution

A natural-history illustration of mosquitoes and other insects 28 September 2026

The Mosquito Effect: when another person’s hunger gets under our skin

A natural-history illustration of a lizard 24 September 2026

The Lizard Effect: what do we lose to stay connected?

Three women sitting together on rocks by the sea in a painting by Caspar David Friedrich 16 September 2026

Connection, disconnection and psychological wellbeing

Two people making a heart shape together with their hands 13 September 2026

Why relationships matter in therapy

Two women having a thoughtful conversation at a table 3 September 2026

Mortality, meaning and the life we are living now

A person following a woodland path beneath a fallen tree 30 August 2026

Finding ourselves in therapy

A person and a dog standing at the edge of the sea beneath a changing sky 21 August 2026

A starting point: nature, therapy and what emerges

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