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24/01/2026

As part of my role as External Moderator I spent a couple of days, with my husband, in Wymondham Norfolk visiting Matrix College of Psychotherapy. We found this fantastic Abbey in the small village. A lovely find.

07/11/2025

Simon Bailey Ex chief Constable of Norfolk and National Policing Lead for Child Protection

- the victims & survivors deserve a much better deal.

07/11/2025

A very important issue for Continuing Professional Development today.

15/08/2025

Two years after treatment started for throat cancer (it finished in September 2023) a visit to my consultant just now confirms that I'm clear of the HPV Mediated throat cancer and all tissues in my mouth & throat are healthy, pink & moist.

A beer to celebrate!

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07/07/2025

Today we remember the 52 people murdered in the bombings of London in 2005.

We should take time to think about everyone else who was affected; families, passers-by as well as the survivors, bereaved & first responders.

My contribution was to supervise the counsellors and staff at the July 7th Assistance Center. The Centre was set up to provide psychotherapy, guidance and support to the survivors, the bereaved, the first responders and anyone else affected by the terrorist bombings.

We went on to provide help to people caught up in 16 further terrorist incidents and disasters.

I took the first photo above on the morning of July 7th is 2011.

Later in 2013 I gave an interview to ITV news about what we learned from providing psychotherapy services to those involved and how that learning went into a Resilience training programme that we offered to professionals and the general public.

Here is a link to that interview: ITV - Learning lessons from 7 July: https://www.itv.com/news/london/2013-07-07/learning-lessons-from-7-july

04/07/2025

Just over four weeks after my cryotherapy for prostate cancer I’m back in the gym.

To be precise I was in the pool. 10 lengths of a 25 meter pool in 25 minutes.

As always, early treatment and great staff make for the best recovery - that and my ever loving husband.

I won’t make London Pride tomorrow as my stamina isn’t up to that just yet - but next year. Happy Pride to all taking part.

If you are awaiting treatment for cancer then let me show you that there is life after it, and a life worth living.

05/06/2025

As I’ve been going through my own personal cancer journey so has my big brother. He’s just had a blog published by The Urostomy Association about his bladder cancer diagnosis in July 2023.

He calls his post “Nothing is beyond you” – mind you he also calls his urostomy stoma bag ‘Audrey’ so who knows what’s going on there!

It’s a practical blog on how to deal with change, incorporate new needs & demands into a busy life without too much upset.

We’ve both found that active engagement is the best and most positive response to this kind of change. That and keeping active. Life is about movement, both physical and mental. The moment you stop that’s when the real problems begin.

Our conversations have moved on to the latest cancer treatments, how to recover well from the various tests and surgeries as well as what this means for both of us in terms of getting older, if not wiser. It's a great read.

https://urostomyassociation.org.uk/blog/nothing-is-beyond-you/

Paul Weaver felt like a fit and healthy 68 year old, but was knocked sideways when he received a bladder cancer diagnosis in July 2023.

02/06/2025

Loneliness.

In this podcast we look at bringing the topic of loneliness into therapy.

We talk about the effect of sharing and revealing issues and how secrets might hold a key to the experience of loneliness.

We talk about the fear of something 'sinister' that might lurk in the background of ur loneliness and how having the conversation we believed we couldn't have releases this fear and maybe even allows something else to emerge.

We talk about the experience of grief and loss and the different kinds of loneliness these can create.

We discuss the staying with the sensations of discomfort without negative judgment and allowing change to happen in a natural and personal way.

We end by talking about connecting and re-connecting and the risks that are involved.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5g5jbLYVkztJhFwlDRoHKU?si=rXDwTQVbRJa9BIeqCMzNuw

Therapists Talking Therapy · Episode

30/05/2025

We are social creatures so thank you all for your kind & supportive messages.

These flowers - & some rather nice chocolates - are from some of my lovely neighbours who I work with.

If you need support, just someone to talk to then reach out. Despite the news media people are endlessly helpful & kind.

We talk a lot about Mental Health so this is a practical way to show support, awareness and even (say it quietly) love.

Reach out with a text, card or phone call if you know someone who may need to know that you are thinking about them.

Back to the chocolates......

28/05/2025

Back in 2018 I had cryotherapy on the left side of my prostate, earlier this year some cancer cells were found on the right side. More cryotherapy yesterday and those will be gone as well.

I called myself the 'wounded healer' back then, now it's more of a known quantity as well as more men going through this procedure so it's less frightening.

I'm building resilience, although it'll be a few weeks before I'm back in the gym again!

I'm being cared for really well, learning to control what I can and my clients are learning with and from me.

As I've often said 'resilience' is having a plan & early screening / tests means a longer & healthier life.

Early tested also gives a postive outlook that makes life worth living.

Feeling a bit delicate now but back home and sleeping a lot.

23/05/2025

A blast from the past - 2020:
What is the Psychotherapy and Counselling Profession?

In this podcast we cast ourselves onto the high seas of debate about how our profession is regulated and how people, patients and clients, make sense of what it is that we actually do.

We skirt around which style of therapy might be better than another and discuss more about meaning of the words that we use and the interventions that we might choose.

We hope to bring some clarity and pose some questions and wonder if it matters what terms we actually use when it's what happens in the therapeutic relationship that really makes the difference.

https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/martin-nicholas/episodes/Ep08-The-Psychotherapy--Counselling-profession---what-is-it-el85am/a-a3j1djo

In this podcast we cast ourselves onto the high seas of debate about how our profession is regulated and how people, patients and clients, make sense of what it is that we actually do. We skirt around which style of therapy might be better than another and discuss more about meaning of the words tha...