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A toxic work environment can have a profound impact on mental health, self-esteem, and overall wellbeing. Many people who seek therapy are not lacking resilience, they are responding to ongoing stress, emotional overload, and repeated boundary violations at work. At Clarina Counselling & Psychotherapy, I support clients to develop healthy workplace boundaries that protect their mental health while remaining grounded, professional, and values-led. Who I work with I work with i

At Clarina Counselling & Psychotherapy , we offer a range of evidence-based therapies designed to support emotional well-being and personal growth. One such approach is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) a powerful, mindful form of psychotherapy that helps people live with greater purpose and psychological flexibility. Who Is ACT For? ACT is suitable for anyone experiencing emotional distress, including anxiety, depression, chronic stress, trauma, relationship challenges

“The Gold Standard Therapy for Treating Trauma”(World Health Organisation) Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing Painful memories can continue to affect how we feel long after an event has passed. EMDR is a therapeutic approach that helps reduce the emotional pain linked to distressing memories without needing to talk through every detail. When Can EMDR Help EMDR can be helpful when past experiences still trigger anxiety, emotional distress, or physical reactions in

Understanding the January Blues For many people, January can feel unexpectedly heavy. After the colour, connection, and stimulation of Christmas, the return to routine, darker mornings, and quieter social calendars can leave people feeling flat, unmotivated, or low. This experience often called the January Blues is a very real emotional response to change, exhaustion, and emotional overload. Financial stress, disrupted sleep, reduced daylight, and unmet expectations for a “fr

A workplace becomes toxic long before you realise you are drowning in it. Sometimes it is loud, public ridicule, exclusion, gossip, or overt hostility. Other times it is quiet, cold silences, withheld information, being ignored, or being shut out of decisions that affect your work. Whether subtle or blatant, a toxic workplace does not just happen, it is created, often from the top down, by leadership systems that enable or embody harmful behaviours. If you are the person bein

Grief: “You Don’t Know What You’ve Got Until It’s Gone” Grief has a way of softening us. It strips away the noise, the arguments, the ego, and the old stories we’ve rehearsed for years. In Buddhist psychotherapy, this softening is sometimes described as the opening of the heart and mind. The place where suffering exposes what truly matters underneath. And nowhere is this more visible than in families. Every family carries its history of old wounds, rivalries, misunderstanding

I’ll be honest with you, body image nearly broke me when I was a teenager. Before I ever learned the language of psychotherapy, before or understood anything about trauma, attachment, or self-esteem, I knew one thing, I did not feel good enough in my own skin, and speaking of skin I was covered in a achne. And if you’re reading this, and you’ve ever stood in front of a mirror and felt that gut punch of shame from what was staring back at me, then you know exactly what I’m tal

When most people think of ADHD, they imagine restless children unable to sit still or adults who are simply forgetful or distracted. But the reality of Adult ADHD  runs much deeper than the surface level stereotypes of inattention and hyperactivity. Beneath the racing thoughts and scattered focus lies a complex interplay of emotional intensity, creativity, intelligence, and resilience. For many adults living with ADHD, the struggle is not a lack of ability but a difference in