Birth plan: Empowering or Disempowering?

Do birth plans empower or disempower women. Unfortunately, this issue is far from clear. Here at WellSpeaking, I am seeing more women and couples reporting a birth experience that did not meet their expectations and in more complex cases lead to feelings of birth...

Will there be a rise in suicide risk post-COVID?

Most governments around the world are preparing for a sharp rise in suicides following COVID-19. The Australian Bureau of Statistics who is responsible for publicising health related statistics nationally has not reported a significant rise in suicides during the...

Why we should be using personal pronouns?

Grammar is experiencing a renaissance. In contemporary culture, personal pronouns are the gateway to respect and inclusion. But why are people suddenly so caught up on personal pronouns? Pronouns substitute for, or refer to someone or something. After mentioning the...

Crucial components of good therapy

Respect Respect is never anything that can be overtly communicated. Rather, it becomes clear by my capacity to sit with each person’s history and choices, without judgement and without criticism. It is communicated by a deep awareness  that a person’s life is their...

The Unconscious – A Psychoanalytic treatment

The notion of the unconscious remains controversial to this day. For many, the idea of a reservoir of emotions and traumatic memory traces hidden from conscious thought seems ridiculous. Because this implies something beyond our control – something else pulling...

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