When Sex Becomes the Place Where Men Carry Everything They Cannot Say. Brief Relational Therapy for Sexual Issues: What Men in Reading Need to Know

When a man comes into counselling because something has changed sexually, he will often arrive with a very clear explanation of what he thinks the problem is: “I cannot get an erection,” “I finish too quickly,” “I have lost my sex drive,” “I do not want sex anymore,” “I want sex but my partner does […]

The Man Who Has Spent His Life Keeping Everyone Else Happy: The High Cost of Empathic Overfunctioning For Men in Reading

Before the accusation, the breakdown, the separation, the argument, or the relationship finally falling apart, there was often something else happening underneath it. A pattern. A man who had become very good at managing everybody else. I see this in counselling with men in Reading and the surrounding towns more often than people might realise. […]

The Psychology of Play: How Old School Games Built Resilience

If you grew up in the nineties in Reading, you didn’t just play games; you were trained by them, not in some dramatic or heroic sense, but quietly and repeatedly in a way that got into your nervous system. The games you played shaped how you dealt with pressure, failure, boredom, and uncertainty because they […]

Divorce Counselling for Men in Reading: When a Man Loses the Life He Thought He Had

Divorce is often described as the end of a marriage. Psychologically, it can be much more than that. For some men, divorce represents the collapse of an entire identity. He may not simply be losing his wife. He may be losing his home, his daily relationship with his children, his social network, his financial security, […]

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