Gemma’s Blog


Jul 1 2022

I’m going to be sharing with you how to talk about your problems and I will also be giving you some strategies to make you feel more comfortable about talking about your problems and getting it off your chest without feeling embarrassed about it. When it comes to[…]

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Dec 1 2021

I am going to be asking you to do something that you might not want to do. I’m going to be asking you to stop what you are doing and take a step back. What I’m really talking about it is quite hard to explain but it is[…]

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Nov 1 2021

I want to explain to you how to put bad memories behind you. There are a few reasons why it is a good idea to put your bad memories behind you. For instance, you can focus on moving forwards if you can put those bad memories behind you.[…]

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Oct 1 2021

Let’s talk about how you can turn the things that make you feel uncomfortable, into things that are just naturally normal everyday things! In my therapy clinic in Hertfordshire, we often hear from young people who have difficulties in transitioning from a world where your parents take a[…]

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Sep 1 2021

I’m going to be sharing with you the various ways in which you can begin to get a little bit more independent in your lives. If you are a young person who is going through that transitional phase of childhood into teenage years or maybe you just come[…]

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Aug 1 2021

Firstly, we’re going to make it clear that anger is not necessarily a bad thing. It’s very often used in negative situations which makes it seem like a bad thing but as is the case with all of your various different emotions none of them are actually bad[…]

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Jul 1 2021

I’m going to teach you something called ‘ecology’. Ecology is the study of how things impact on the world around you. Sometimes we get a really good idea about what it is that we might want to do or achieve in our lives and it’s really difficult to[…]

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Jun 1 2021

I am going to be speaking to you today about making friends. Making friends should be easy but sometimes it is not! I remember when I was little, I just used to walk up to random people and go ‘hello, would you like to be my friend?’ and[…]

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Sep 1 2020

Why it is that sometimes we desire to be different from everybody else and sometimes that might feel a little bit uncomfortable? What you might not know is that this is a perfectly normal pattern that all human beings rotate throughout during their lives.  When we start out[…]

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Jul 1 2020

I’m going to ask you to do the biggest psychological stretch that you’ve ever been asked to do because this month I’m focusing on behaviour. I know from my work with families and young people in Hertfordshire, that often when there are behavioural problems in a family the[…]

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