J Storr Counselling

A woman’s work is never done!

(before anyone gets upset I also would like to acknowledge all of the stay at home dads as well!) I was speaking to someone recently about the presumption that mums (see note above about dads!) who stay at home and do not have a job. This, for some people seems a logical presumption as theyContinue reading “A woman’s work is never done!”

Letter Writing

So a good friend of mine and I had a conversation, that went a little like this: ‘Do you fancy writing letters to each other rather than using technology?’ ‘Yeah that sounds like a good idea, shall I start? I like getting post!’ ‘Ok, go on then, I look forward to getting some post.’ InsertContinue reading “Letter Writing”

Supervision

So today with my class we looked at supervision and some of the supervision models out there, being used by supervisors today. Do you know what surprised me the most? That some of the supervisors had not shared their model of working with their supervisees! How do you work without letting your supervisee know whatContinue reading “Supervision”

Feelings are not facts!

Something that has sat with me today. So I figured why not write about it. So. Feelings are not facts. True or false? My logical brain is telling me that’s true and my emotional brain is churning my stomach! The story of why this came up is kinda irrelevant but more about what its doingContinue reading “Feelings are not facts!”

The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go

I was inspired for this blog post by the sheer overload of online learning there is available right now, as well as my own experiences of moving our classes online. I teach Level 3 and Level 4 counselling qualifications and we, like millions of people in the world, jumped from classroom to online overnight. ItContinue reading “The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go”

I once had a dream….

So over the last week I have been talking about dreaming with different people in my life. Some of them students as we were looking at Gestalt therapies today and then again with my blogging peer group, and some a couple of weeks ago when I went on a collective dream workshop. When the studentsContinue reading “I once had a dream….”

To write or not to write…..

So the first thing that hit me was the fact that when faced with an empty page when or what is good enough to not only start but also with what! And I decided that was the answer. Lets look at what it is that stops us or rather me from writing. Recently I haveContinue reading “To write or not to write…..”