Cosmos Counselling

25/12/2025

Hoping everyone’s day has gone as you wished. Sending love, hope, joy and new beginnings.

22/12/2025

It can be quite a challenge to find moments of quiet amongst the Christmas busyness so what about living a quiet life all the time? Are there any benefits to living a life in obscurity? Ovid's 2000 year old words appear to be as relevant today as they were for the Romans.

Having recently attended a family funeral, it got me thinking about what is a good life? Can we live quietly and happily and it be a good life? Ovid, writing from the heart of the Roman Empire, offered a piece of advice that feels almost subversive today: live obscurely and quietly. In a culture tha...

21/12/2025

Christmas will pass. If you need some support, these agencies are there.

29/11/2025

It breaks my heart to hear parents feeling so desperate and alone. As a therapist trained in all aspects of adoption work with Barnardo’s, admittedly 10 years ago, when funding and support was promised to these parents to prevent this. Questions do need to be asked. ❤️

19/10/2025

Watched this this morning. Our feelings can get lost in the noise of life…but talk to someone. Samaritans are always there if needed.

12/10/2025

Very much agree - abandonment will show up later in life and that very much includes emotional abandonment.

30/09/2025

A bit corny but you get the point? No one knows what others may be going through.

10/09/2025

You can reach out if you ever need support. There is always someone there who will listen, who cares.

Reach out if you need support this World Su***de Prevention Day 💙

Please share this so people know where to go for help.

07/09/2025

People pleasing - what can you do if you know you struggle with this. Yes, we can talk boundaries but I appreciate it isn’t easy challenging old beliefs as well as behaviours.

Internet filmmaker Baron Ryan talks to himself, but he doesn't always like what he has to say. In a funny, existential play (where Ryan plays both himself and his mind), he contemplates the paradox of being a people pleaser, the efficacy of melatonin gummies and the squirming questions that keep man...

05/09/2025

Do you avoid feelings or choose to ‘turn them down’?

04/09/2025

Pets come into the therapy room in so many ways. What can we learn from them?

In this video, Eckhart explains how your pet can be a source of joy and a gateway to living in the present moment. He shares how the love and connection with...

03/09/2025

I too share a worry regarding pathologising a normal human response to experiences and / or environments along with the influence of ‘big pharma.’ Sometimes it really is us that have to dig deep, be brave, be vulnerable, to make a change for the better.

I doodled this in 2018, whilst I was processing my developing understanding of psychiatry as a form of social control. I found my old journals and notebooks whilst cleaning my office on the weekend, and found this little doodle again.

Hundreds of professionals from all sectors contact me every week/month to say that they too feel this way. I’ve even met professionals who have worked directly in psychiatry and mental health who have restrained people, medicated them, diagnosed them, sectioned them - and now regret every moment of it. Some professionals look back on what they did to traumatised and abused victims and carry the weight of that guilt and shame every single day.

Some professionals were forced out of their jobs for speaking up, or had to resign because they couldn’t cope with seeing the way traumatised people were being treated and spoken to/about.

There are thousands and thousands of professionals who are beginning to understand - whether by reading and education - or intuitively and instinctively - that labelling, medicating and locking people up who need help, love, time, understanding, validation and answers - is a form of abuse and control.

I know it can feel scary to hold such views - especially when they are considered ‘radical’ or ‘dangerous’ - but please be reassured that society is waking up. Psychiatry has had control for a century or so, but I don’t think it will for much longer - the house of cards is falling down, and people are realising that there are better ways to process their distress and trauma without pills and hospital wards.

You are not alone in your thinking or your ideas, and you are absolutely entitled to hold your views that psychiatry is a form of social control. The medical model of mental health is ONLY A THEORY. You are absolutely allowed to criticise and reject a theory. Remember that. Don’t be afraid.