The taboo around sex and porn addiction means a person can battle its effects in secret for a long time. UKCP’s Sarah Niblock and Paula Hall discuss how sex dependence can affect those around us and how therapy can address and allow us to understand

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1 Before you even call the meeting, ask yourself if there really needs to be a meeting. 2 Allocate five minutes per person for individuals to speak about anything that is on their mind, and invite the rest of the team to listen. 3 Mix team members in

During lockdown, food critic Jay Rayner had the brilliant idea of sending a well-chosen posh takeaway from a local restaurant to his celebrity interviewee. This is useful for narrowing down the overwhelming choice when we’re housebound, and when we’r

KNITTING CAN BE A wonderfully mindful activity, but we often don’t consider where our wool originated. I’m vegan, so I avoid new woollen products but, as with many eco living questions, be guided by your own values and priorities. You might think she

If time is the currency of your life, how are you spending yours? When the clocks spring forward and you lose an hour, you realise the value of 60 minutes! But how can you use your time more meaningfully? Our four-week programme, ‘Make time count’, w

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I BEGAN TRAINING as a psychotherapist almost 30 years ago. I trained with Relate as a couples counsellor, then as a psychosexual therapist, which is how I became a psychotherapist through the College of Sexual and Relationship Therapists. With a prev

‘Do what makes you feel alive and connected to the world,’ advises introvert Lucy Griffiths on page 39, as she ponders re-emerging from the comfort zone of home. This month, we look at how to make the most of every minute. Whether rich or poor, we ar

In Georgina Lawton’s childhood home, her blackness was never acknowledged; she had white parents and a white brother, but the family practised a kind of colour blindness that left her bewildered about her heritage. After the death of her father, she

• TheUK Council for Psychotherapy(UKCP) is the leading research, innovation, educational and  regulatory body working to advance psychotherapy for the benefit of all. We have a register of more than 8,000 individual members, who offer a range of ther

Psychologist Gail Matthews, a professor at the Dominican University in California, led a study on setting goals and the results showed that you are 42 per cent more likely to achieve your ambitions if you write them down. With that in mind, I invite

IN MOMENTS OF ANXIETY, focusing on something in the here and now, such as three deep, slow breaths, can provide us with the space we need to pause, gather our thoughts and step out of autopilot. This affords us the chance to respond to our situation,

1 Are you spending more time watching porn than you would like? There is no right amount of time, but you may find that you are doing less of the things you would usually do because you would rather watch porn. 2 Do you feel that your sexual needs