Hayley Ryan

Self-care simply means taking care of yourself.  Or as we often phrase it at your counselling service ‘being kind to yourself’. Life can get very busy and a lot of the time it is hard to find the time to… Read More »Self-care.

Looking at young people today I am left wondering how many of them are actually young and free? What does it feel like to be young and free?  Or is the question perhaps what does it feel like to be… Read More »Being young.

Here at your counselling service we also offer group therapy. One of the groups we run is an eating disorder group for young women. The group is open to any young woman (above the age of 16) that is currently living with ANY… Read More »Eating Disorder group therapy

Relationships are complicated and often people don’t realise the amount of effort and nurturing that needs to go into them. There are often issues within all types of relationships.  It doesn’t just mean with your partner.  It can mean with… Read More »Improving relationships.

What do you do when you wake up one morning, look at the love of your life and feel like you are kissing a frog?  That you prince charming or your Cinderella has turned into a frog.  That feeling you… Read More »Kissing a frog….

Most people don’t notice how they talk to others… sometimes this leave us feeling hurt and unappreciated.   The same can be said for how we speak to ourselves.  Sometimes we don’t even listen to how we speak about ourselves to… Read More »The words we use…..

  There might be times in life when we have all felt powerless.  Powerless to change our lives and to have the “will” to take responsibility for our lives.  It could be that we have to take a long hard look at life… Read More »Self-empowerment

I lay awake while the world was asleep My alarm went off but I felt too weak My soul was too heavy for my feet I truly believed that I had been beat But then I realised it was time… Read More »Hope…

Sexual abuse can happen to boys and men too.  We are talking about all ages and all kinds of backgrounds.  The boy/man on the bus next to you, the boy/man in the queue in front of you, or living next door to you…..… Read More »Male sexual abuse.

Working as a therapist I have grown to love the work I do with my male clients.  I have learned that as a female counsellor I never should have an expectancy of how my male clients should be.  I have… Read More »Men and counselling.