A clinical interview is a structured conversation between you and your mental health professional designed to gather comprehensive information about your mental health, symptoms, history, and current ...

Many people expect that once anxiety improves, life should return to normal. But in practice, something different often happens. The intensity may reduce, but the patterns remain. Overthinking ...

Family differentiation refers to your ability to maintain your individual identity, thoughts, and feelings while remaining emotionally connected to your family. This concept, developed by Murray Bowen ...

Labelling and mislabeling are cognitive distortions that involve defining oneself or others by mistakes, negative characteristics, or single behaviours rather than recognising the complexity and ...

Supervision in counselling is when a professional counsellor uses the services of another counsellor or psychotherapist to review the way they work with their clients. Supervision is a key requirement ...

When distress takes hold and familiar comforts fall silent, it’s easy to wonder where help can be found—especially when each country, language, and community has its own way of reaching out. Yet, no ...

Human lives and behaviour are far more nuanced and emotive than any psychiatric diagnostic system or symptom checklist can ever portray. Most people recognise aspects of themselves in at least a few ...

In Mexico, the regulation of mental health professionals is managed by the Ministry of Public Education (SEP) through a mandatory national license (Cédula Profesional). Psychiatrists are licensed as ...

The dance between the narcissist and the empath resembles a parasitic relationship. Motivated by the desire to seek love and to heal the wounded narcissist, the empath becomes the perfect host to the ...

Human lives and behaviour are far more nuanced and emotive than any psychiatric diagnostic system or symptom checklist can ever portray. Most people recognise aspects of themselves in at least a few ...

Human lives and behaviour are far more nuanced and emotive than any textbook, psychiatric diagnostic system or symptom checklist can ever portray. While movies are not perfect depictions of reality, ...

Jacobs (1986) was one of the first to use the term enactment in an analytic context. He conceptualised enactment as a subtle interlocking of the transference and countertransference that operates ...