Assisting students to find placements
This blog site has contributors from various walks of life, including counsellors, students and the public.
Our history started during counselling courses which the founders attended and are attending, together. Our growing network of trainees, competent counsellors and therapists is blossoming as we train, graduate and begin our professional lives.
Counselling agencies and charities may contact trainees via this website.
Students can use their CV and their contributions on this website to apply for placements in the world of work.
Hi there! We’re trying to leave some lasting ideas, which can be bookmarked and build into better ways of living.
Please help to add to the wisdom:
– more permanent than a Facebook post,
– not as difficult to edit as Wikipedia,
but most importantly – have fun learning – share what you know, learn what you don’t know.
Featured posts:
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Issues with self-help for autistic people
Executive summary: spoon theory, not hustle culture. Read on, below, to find why a spoonful of sugar helps the self-help medicine go down. We explore three antidotes to the problems in the self-help harms list. Goal ecology 🧭 The Autistic Finisher Model We replace “finish everything” with: “Keep a small number of things finishable at
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Burnout causes & solutions
One Solution – a specialist therapist, for instance, in Kent, U.K. https://www.theburnoutcounsellor.co.uk Bibliotherapy solution Dr Claire Plumbly’s Burnout book (2024). Initial chapters are available on Google books, or Kindle. Listen to the book on Spotify (premium required). The yin-yang balance needs to be in place regarding the above bibliotherapy solution, because carefully approaching self-help and
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Burnout: why relaxing doesn’t always help.
Someone who is burnt out may be feeling “tired but wired”. The “stress bucket” is a metaphor to explain why rest doesn’t always cure burnout. Stress Bucket In most cases someone can relieve stress in various ways and restore their usual capacity for taking on work. However the person in chronic burnout finds that their