How Hypnotherapy Can Treat Chronic Stress

As a normal part of everyday life, stress is something that everybody experiences in some capacity. However, in its chronic form, stress can severely affect the quality of a sufferer’s life, even leading to physical conditions such as high blood pressure and high...

Loss and Bereavement: Recognising the Differences

When we lose someone or something important in our lives, it is never easy to accept. The bereavement process that follows can be extremely difficult to navigate, with overwhelming feelings of despair and sadness. Here at Bridges Therapy Centre, we’re here to...

How VR Therapy Can Help with Phobias

For deep-seated and long-lasting phobias, it can sometimes be hard to think that a solution can be found. A reluctance to try exposure therapy can result in sufferers from shying away from treatment, afraid of having to face their fears. However, new developments in...

How to Support Children with Selective Mutism

As the school year begins again, young children across the country are heading to the classroom for the first time. But although many children will be confident in their new setting, it can be extremely difficult for others to adjust. The shift to being around lots of...

Understanding Body Dysmorphic Disorder

Everybody has days when they feel down about the way that they look. But when do these negative feelings become a deeper problem? Body Dysmorphic Disorder, also known as BDD, is an anxiety condition that causes sufferers to develop obsessive compulsive behaviour in...

Tips to Manage Trichotillomania

Trichotillomania, commonly referred to as ‘trich’, is a chronic, recurring compulsion to pull hair. For those suffering from trich, it can have a huge impact on all aspects of life and cause significant emotional distress. Although there is no...

What is Solution Focused Therapy?

Often, talk based therapy such as CBT and counselling involves in-depth discussions about an individual’s specific problems. While talking therapies such as these are incredibly helpful to most, sometimes an alternative approach may be needed. First developed in...

Why is OCD Worse at Night?

Many people with OCD find the symptoms are more difficult to deal with as you are trying to get to sleep. Intrusive thoughts a primary cause of preventing people with OCD from being able to relax and drift off into a peaceful night’s sleep. The stillness of the...

Is Online Therapy Right For Me?

Therapy is a big decision. How that therapy takes shape in terms of treatments, issues discussed and the sphere in which you receive counselling greatly affect the way in which you manage your mental health. Online therapy in Canary Wharf and Hendon is often...

Tips for Coping with Depression

Depression affects many adults in the UK, and worldwide. People diagnosed with low mood or depression may experience symptoms such as persistent crying, negative thoughts or changes in appetite, plus more. It can either be experienced as a temporary mental health...