Self-Care for Counsellors – The Orchard Counselling

The Role of Mindfulness and Self-Compassion in Self-Care

28th October 2015

In our daily lives we juggle a multitude of roles. Professionally we are called counsellors. As counsellors we spend our time working with and assisting people on bettering their lives and living more healthfully. We do this in real time while we are working with these clients in an individual counselling session, while we are […]

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Self-Care Is Not a Luxury

23rd October 2015

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| Categories: counselling, Lisa Shouldice, psychotherapy, self-care, Self-Care for Counsellors

I am so excited at this time of year when I open my Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn accounts to see lots of articles, links and Blogs circulating about self-care. But I do think we lose sight of self-care as an all-day, everyday practice, including the times we need a bit extra. So let’s open up […]

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Making the Time for Yourself

7th May 2015

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| Categories: counselling, guidance counsellor, Jennifer Morrison, psychotherapy, School Counselling, self-care, Self-Care for Counsellors, time

I am sitting here at my desk thinking about how excited I am about getting the opportunity to write for Counselling Connect. It is something I have wanted to do for some time and only now am I finding the time to get to it. Perhaps finding the time is not the correct term to […]