Health

Carly’s Couch — This week everyone is preoccupied with Covid-19 and so I thought it a good idea to address what feelings might be coming up for you at this time and to connect with you over [...]

Here at Carly’s Couch we are very open and interested in other healing modalities. We also believe that some physical discomfort and ailments have psychological roots. It has therefore been [...]

Social media is as ubiquitous as it is new. In the last decade we have seen social media go from something “the kids use” to a standard modern communication device used by everyone, [...]

I haven’t written a blog post in a while because I’ve been vlogging so much. If you haven’t seen my vlogs yet please visit my YouTube channel here. The latest one is on Depression and it is very [...]

December is here and so are the familiar conversations around holiday plans, New Years Eve plans and new years resolutions. I am quite fond of new years resolutions because I think that it’s [...]

What is it about Sunday night? Are our bodies pre-programmed after years of schooling to go into automatic anxiety mode? This Sunday, my moment of didn’t-do-my-homework anxiety came courtesy of a [...]

Autumn is really here and along with it has come a wave of intense laziness for me. Over the last few weeks I have noticed myself spending more time indoors, taking trains rather than biking to [...]

I wrote this at the beginning of the year but seeing as it’s nearing summer season in the Northern Hemisphere I thought I would give it another whirl. Let’s be honest, none of us have [...]

I have been travelling a lot of late. It was my goal for this year and so far it’s proving to be incredibly easy and I have travel options in abundance! It is definitely the top reason why living [...]

It’s now officially winter in Berlin and it’s freezing! I have never experienced temperatures like this before. A casual -3 turned into a -13 because of wind chill factor – I’m not sure humans [...]

I was thinking about the work I do and it occurred to me that people who go into therapy usually have no idea how hard it is. As a therapist, I ask my clients to delve into their most painful [...]

Psychology is not just about what goes on in the mind. To be a healthy individual, you need to be healthy in both mind and body! Anyone who has ever suffered from depression will know that it [...]

Although I usually don’t discuss specific diagnoses on this blog or for that matter refer to any therapy or technique, I think that it is important for me to share some of the knowledge that my [...]

As the world grapples with the news of Robin William’s passing, I find myself thinking about the nature of depression and on negative thinking in general and feel compelled to offer something. [...]

“You’re probably the right person to get good advice from. I feel like I’m running away from a huge nervous breakdown. Since 3 or 4 days already. I don’t know what caused this, sometimes I [...]

One of the other elements of My Stroke of Insight that I connected to was the concept of mindfulness. Mindfulness is a well-established tool that psychologists have been using with patients for [...]