Creativity can be a complex, exhilarating and sometimes frustrating process. It feels profoundly satisfying when it is working, when your body and brain are firing together to produce your art, whatever that might be.

Depression is often experienced as an intense heaviness of mood, inertia (not wanting or feeling able to move and act), , and a loss of enjoyment in all or many aspects of life. It is more than just feeling 'down', which most people experience at one time or another. Depression can and often does include feelings of anxiety, hopelessness and being overwhelmed. It doesn't seem to lift no matter what you do, and has possibly gone on for some time.

Grief is a normal response to significant loss. This loss may be of a significant other, or of something else very important and meaningful to you such as your job, a relationship, or some aspect of your future.

When you experience important life changes or transitions, whether they are welcome and planned or not, it can be difficult to manage the sense of uncertainty or even of multiple possibilities. You can feel confused and overwhelmed by all the decisions you need to make.  You may want some support to challenge or understand any self-doubts, to make the best decisions for yourself, and to manage the transitions in the best possible way for you. 

Your life is going reasonably well, you have a satisfying job, a good relationship and good friends. But you feel that something is missing or simply that life could be even better.

Whether you are in a long-term relationship that is going through a difficult patch, or struggling to build or commit to a new relationship, or you just don't know what you want, past learned patterns can get in the way of the relationship you want.

People learn to feel bad about themselves through damaging events or relationships in childhood or even in adulthood. That is, because of something that happens or how they are treated they come to believe they have little or no worth or value, and believe this is a fact.

Stress in a very literal and simple sense is the feeling of being under intense and often unrelenting pressure that can feel physically overwhelming, and to which there seems to be no solution.

If you have experienced a trauma your symptoms, behaviours, and even your beliefs and thoughts, reflect how you tried to adapt to circumstances beyond your control, and how you survived those events. These symptoms can, however, have a very disruptive effect on your current, daily life.

Workplace bullying can be a distressing and bewildering experience for adults. It can be hard to understand how you found yourself in a situation where whatever you try do to resolve the situation only seems to make things worse.