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Counselling and therapy

July 2024

  • A hand squeezing a stress-relieving ball

    How to build a better life
    Face your anger and let it out. It’s the only way to stay healthy

  • Illustration showing a man hugging his son

    How to build a better life
    If you care about someone, show them – and put away your phone

June 2024

  • An illustrated graphic of a woman laying down in a chair crying while another woman behind her looks at a long receipt

    Anxious about money? Five financial therapists share their advice

    Money is emotional. Financial therapists can help make sense of these feelings, from budget plans to money scripts
  • The Experts by Sarah Philips: actors on how to boost your confidence

    The experts
    The experts: actors on 20 ways to look and feel confident – when you’re anything but

    Does the thought of a presentation or meeting new people make you sweat? Actors including Maxine Peake and Johnny Flynn explain how to perform under pressure
  • Better Life - illustration for Moya Sarner

    How to build a better life
    Angry? Disappointed? Heartbroken? Think twice before you call the feelings police

    Faced with ‘bad’ emotions, it’s natural to want to lock them up. As a therapist and a patient, I’ve learned to let them run

May 2024

  • Bernard Thurlow

    Other lives
    Bernard Thurlow obituary

    Other lives: Teacher and counsellor working in schools and the probation service who later founded a charity for female asylum seekers
  • Four African women talk in a dimly lit communal area

    Celebrate, remember and reframe: the therapy sessions healing South Africa’s women

    As the trauma of apartheid, crime and violence continue to ripple through society, a counselling initiative by Tree of Life creator Ncazelo Ncube-Mlilo is helping ease the pain
  • BUTTERMERE, 21 June 2021 - Five frriends making their longest swim on the longest day, the 1.24 mile length of Buttermere in the Lake District. Christopher Thomond for The Guardian.

    What if HRT isn’t right for me? And is cold-water swimming really the answer to everything? Your menopause questions answered

    We asked the experts for advice on how to ease your path through menopause and what alternative treatments work best

April 2024

  • PressureAndRelease THUMBNAIL

    The Guardian documentary
    Pressure and Release: horse therapy for young Indigenous Australians

    The Kimberley region of Western Australia is a beautiful place. But it is home to communities in crisis – devastated by a pattern of suicides among young Aboriginal people. A glimmer of hope emerges in the form of Prof Juli Coffin, a Nyangumarta woman and mental-health professional who enlists her herd of horses to create deeply felt connections between animal and human. Prof Coffin’s programme uses a culturally appropriate setting to support long-term healing for some of Australia’s most vulnerable young people.

  • The Guardian documentary
    Pressure and Release: horse therapy for young Indigenous Australians

    The Kimberley region of Western Australia is a beautiful place. But it is home to communities in crisis – devastated by a pattern of suicides among young Aboriginal people. A glimmer of hope emerges in the form of Prof Juli Coffin, a Nyangumarta woman and mental-health professional who enlists her herd of horses to create deeply felt connections between animal and human. Prof Coffin's programme uses a culturally appropriate setting to support long-term healing for some of Australia's most vulnerable young people.
  • Rwanda, reconciliation afteer the1994 genocide.<br>Marianna Nyirantagorama, 58 I am the only one from our family who survived the genocide. My mother, two brothers and four sisters ended up in a mass grave. I was one of the few survivors in the midst of a crowd of dead people in the church where most of my family were murdered. I played dead among the bloody corpses. This man killed my eldest sister. In sociotherapy I could forgive him. I saw his remorse. Marc Nyandekwe, 60 I spent six years and nine months in prison. After my release, I couldn’t face Marianna. At first, I barricaded myself in my house. Later I went to work elsewhere. Occasionally, I returned to my family. Marianna told my wife I no longer needed to flee. I was convinced it was a trap. She brewed banana beer and offered me a bottle. I refused. I was afraid she wanted to poison me. But she lent us money. She saw how poor our family was. She gave me jobs. The woman whose sister I killed kept me alive.

    ‘He killed my sister. Now I see his remorse’: the extraordinary stories of survivors of the Rwandan genocide who forgave their attackers

    Half a million died in 100 days: neighbours attacked neighbours, children saw their families slaughtered. But 30 years on, many of the victims and perpetrators have forged reconciliations – even become friends. How did it happen?

March 2024

  • A heterosexual couple sitting next to each other in couples therapy session looking stressed.

    Intimate details
    ‘We have spent about $5,000 – it has been incredible’: readers on going to couples counselling

  • Narconon UK, a Scientology-linked rehab centre in Heathfield, East Sussex.

    Scientology-linked UK rehab centre investigated by charities watchdog

  • Woman talking to a therapist who is taking notes

    Convenience therapy and quick fixes could be harmful to health

  • Morwenna Ferrier wearing a black suit, sitting in a brown velvet chair against a brown backdrop

    Analyse this: a therapy special
    I saw my therapist weekly for two years. Then he let slip he’d been watching me. Had he crossed a line?

  • Analyse this: a therapy special
    ‘He checks in on me more than my friends and family’: can AI therapists do better than the real thing?

  • Analyse this: a therapy special
    No, it’s not all your mother’s fault! And 10 other myths about going to therapy, busted

  • Analyse this: a therapy special
    ‘What the hell is she doing here?’: the day an A-list actor came to me for therapy

February 2024

  • An ex-participant at Narconon UK, and its logo.

    ‘My mind had been shattered into a million pieces’: inside the Scientology-linked UK rehab centre

    It’s listed on the NHS website and claims to be a ‘world leader’ in tackling substance abuse. But there is a shocking side to the Narconon addiction facility – as our nine-month investigation reveals

January 2024

  • Two women sitting in chairs and clasping hands

    Vale Varda, the gentle, unflinching therapist who with three words unlocked my life

    Jessie Cole
    How to speak about our bond? This extraordinary pact, this astonishing communion
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