20 Ways to Break Free from Trauma

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Interview with Adam Ball on Radio Oxford

13 June 2025

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Human Signposts

The Samaritans, Britain's first crisis hotline, was founded in 1953 ‘to befriend the despairing and suicidal’. If, like me, you visit the tiny crypt of this church where it all began - St Stephen’s Walbrook in the City of London - you can still see the telephone where...
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Why and how do we remember?

Perhaps you remember the moment you heard about a significant international or national event. When I heard about John Lennon being shot in New York in 1980, I was an undergraduate having coffee in the student common room. I heard about the terrorist attack on the...
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Mind over Mountains: the Power of Nature

I recently had the privilege of giving a workshop for Mind over Mountains, an award-winning charity that began in 2020 as an organisation offering professional mental wellbeing support through walking in nature. Trauma - when we are overwhelmed - so often needs to be...
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Sad Book and the Power of Dance

Michael Rosen’s Sad Book, a novel written after the death of his son Eddie, has been adapted by the 201 theatre company and was performed at the end of March at the Mill Arts Centre in Banbury. Banbury Therapy Centre were invited to be Compassionate Listeners for...
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A Gentle Approach to Anxiety

On 29 March, I attended the book launch of fellow Jessica-Kingsley-published author, Dr Martin Brunet. His book, Your Worry Makes Sense, was introduced in conversation at Guildford Baptist Church by the banks of the River Wey. We can surely all resonate with anxiety...
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Mind the Gap! Women and Homelessness

Frightened jumping This way that way Only knowing my fragmented terrified Beyond twitchy self I Bump off edges Jarring jangled Ricocheting At the mercy of life At the mercy of me My pinball self Let me rest I long for a kinder way When we walk past Big Issue sellers...
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Young Men Need Intensive Care!

A respected psychiatrist, working in a project with traumatised young people, tells them ‘Your vulnerability is your power'.  But these young folk are so locked into their defensive patterns of behaviour, hiding behind an array of tricky behaviours such as aggression...
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The Wellbeing Show with Noel McDermott

26 March 2025

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Eldership conference: the gifts of ageing

A café-style conference was held at the Quaker Meeting House in Oxford on Saturday 15 March 2025, with thirty participants from around the country. I was privileged to be one of seven speakers, all of us experienced psychotherapists of different modalities, cultures...
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What is psychotherapy?

Psychotherapy and counselling processes offer you the opportunity to talk, confidentially, to a qualified practitioner who is trained to listen to you carefully and understand and accept you.

Counselling is generally a shorter process and psychotherapy generally more in depth for a more substantial time.

These conversations offer you a safe place to help you to think more clearly about your difficulties and understand your feelings. Together we will try to think about you and what is causing your unhappiness.

Though it may take courage, a therapy process can be enlightening and enable you to find new tools to manage your life and problems and feel less stuck in patterns that are not working for you.

Each session lasts 50 minutes and will usually be on the same day and at the same time each week.