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1. What is counselling?
2. Recommended reading
   • Relationships
   • Anxiety / Anger
   • Self-care / Resilience
   • Neuroscience / Emotions
   • Trauma
   • Grief
   • Infertility
3. Business resources for professional counsellors

1. What is counselling?

The NHS view

• Different types of therapy (BACP)
• What therapy can help with (BACP)

Your relationship with your therapist is generally more important than the approach they use.

– BACP

the concept of counselling, the role of a counsellor,
the skills required

2. Recommended reading

• Relationships
• Anxiety / Anger
• Self-care / Resilience
• Neuroscience / Emotions
• Trauma
• Grief
• Infertility

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The Judging Mind

Relationships

• How Therapy Helped Me Find the Right Relationship
• How to deal with relationship problems post-lockdown
• The secrets to sustaining a strong sexual connection over the long haul

• The 8 Worst Things You Can Do During An Argument With Your Partner
• The 5 Phrases That Could Rescue a Relationship
• How Attachment Style Changes Through Multiple Decades of Life

• Yep, we’re all fighting with our partners right now
• 9 Better Ways to Handle Relationship Disagreements, According to Experts

• 6 terrible reasons to get married (and 5 beautiful signs that you should)
• How To Get Closer Than Ever During Your Engagement (Without Wanting To Kill Each Other Before The Wedding)

• A Maintenance Plan for Your Marriage
• Every successful relationship is successful for the same 10 exact reasons
• How to Build Trust in Your Relationship

• Practical, Science-Based Steps to Heal from an Affair

• How to Break Up

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Anxiety / Anger

• It Feels Like Anger, but Is It Really Anxiety?
• Coping Skills for Anxious Times
• Helping Children With Anxiety: What to Say to Children When They Are Anxious

• 14 Easy Ways to Feel Way Less Anxious at Work
• 32 Mantras That Help People Get Through Anxiety
• 17 ‘Small,’ but Significant, Lifestyle Changes That Help People With Anxiety

• Feeling Stuck or Anxious? Change Your Story to Move Forward
• A Simple Way to Calm Yourself When Feeling Strong Emotions
• 6 Ways the Most Emotionally Intelligent People Handle Anger

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Self-care / Resilience

• Talks for when you feel totally burned out
• Our best bet against burnout is self-care, just not the kind you think
• The truth about burnout: It doesn’t look how we expect it to

• Self-esteem
• How to recognise, prevent and deal with burnout in a creative job
• Mindfulness meditation may ease anxiety, mental stress

• How People Learn to Become Resilient
• Resilience Is About How You Recharge, Not How You Endure

• 134 Activities to Add to Your Self-Care Plan
• 15 Truths About Self-Love We All Need To Remember

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Neuroscience / Emotions

• Here are 24 cognitive biases that are warping your perception of reality
• Group Drumming Better Than Prozac, Study Suggests
• Should you live near the ocean? 5 benefits of living near the beach

• How to Stop Emotional Eating as a Coping Mechanism
• The Story of Your Life
• Traits of an Empath

• The Neuroscience of Why Gratitude Makes Us Healthier
• How Nature Rewires the Brain for Happiness
• How The Brain Shapes Pain And Links Ouch With Emotion

• Yes, Impostor Syndrome Is Real. Here’s How to Deal With It
• Too scared to speak up? How to be more confident
• What your reaction to the COVID-19 outbreak says about you

• The ‘Emotion Chart’ My Therapist Gave Me That I Didn’t Know I Needed
• The 5 different types of tiredness
• The 7 Types of Rest You Need to Actually Feel Recharged

• Why Self-Compassion Works Better Than Self-Esteem
• The Hippies Were Right: It’s All about Vibrations, Man!
• Just Because You’re A High Achiever Doesn’t Mean Mental Health Is Not For You

• Why Winter is SAD for some
• It’s Not All Love and Light: Why We Can’t Ignore the Dark and Just “Be Positive”

• 4 Types of Anger and Their Destructive Impact
• Four Types of Grief Nobody Told You About

• Artist With Depression Illustrates What She’s Learned In Therapy To Help People Deal With Their Mental Health Problems

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Trauma

• Why Are Memories of My Past Trauma Coming Back Now?
• Mental Health First Aid – what is it and how can I do it?
• The Benefits of Yoga for Trauma Treatment and Mind-Body Wellness

• Can Music Heal Trauma? Exploring the Therapeutic Powers of Sound
• Love and Connection: How Trauma Can Bring Us Closer Together
• Trauma Treatment: What’s Your Body Got to Do with It?

• Big T and Little t Trauma and How Your Body Reacts to It
• 7 ways to practice emotional first aid
• How Trauma Is Carried Across Generations

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Grief

• The messy, complicated truth about grief
• Woman Shares The “Ball In The Box” Analogy Her Doctor Taught Her To Help Deal With Grief
• Understanding Grief

• Losing a Parent Changes Us Forever. There’s Proof.

• 9 Ways Therapists Personally Deal With Grief
• A dirty secret called grief

• How to Speak to Someone About an Unspeakable Loss
• 4 Things You Need to Know about ‘Moving On’ from Grief
• Dealing with Loss and Grief: Be Good to Yourself While You Heal

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Infertility

• My wife and I struggled with infertility for 7 years – here’s what I learned through the process
• What Accepting Childlessness Means to Me
• Helping patients cope after a failed cycle

• Getting the right support: How specialist fertility counselling can help
• My IVF life: the science experiment to make a baby – from a partner’s view
• The lasting trauma of infertility

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3. Business resources for professional counsellors

1. Resource Library
2. Example P&L for a self employed counsellor
3. Example cash flow for a self employed counsellor
4. Tax made easy for counsellors
5. A guide to expenses for counsellors
6. How to Market Your Private Practice

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