Journal

Insight &
wellbeing.

Thoughts on therapy, mental health and living well from the Well Connections team.

Parenting Coaching: Navigating Everyday Challenges with Confidence
9 November 2025

Parenting Coaching: Navigating Everyday Challenges with Confidence

Parenting coaching offers tailored strategies to manage child behavior, improve family dynamics, and overcome challenges like tantrums and sibling rivalry, boosting confidence and harmony.

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Parenting Coaching Techniques to Tackle Family Stress: A Guide to Calm and Connection
7 November 2025

Parenting Coaching Techniques to Tackle Family Stress: A Guide to Calm and Connection

This guide offers parenting coaching techniques to identify and manage family stress, enhance mental well-being, improve communication, and build stronger family connections for a calmer, healthier home.

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The Power of Personalised Therapist Matching: Your Path to Successful Counselling
6 November 2025

The Power of Personalised Therapist Matching: Your Path to Successful Counselling

Well Connections offers personalised therapist matching with no waiting lists, ensuring fast, tailored mental health support for effective, trust-based counselling and a smoother path to well-being.

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Comprehensive Strategies for Emotional Wellbeing in Educational Settings: A Guide for Schools
5 November 2025

Comprehensive Strategies for Emotional Wellbeing in Educational Settings: A Guide for Schools

This guide outlines strategies for enhancing emotional wellbeing in schools through early recognition, counselling, safe spaces, tailored wellbeing programs, staff training, student engagement, open mental health dialogue, support networks, and partnership with Well Connections.

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Unlocking Success in Therapy: The Power of Personalised Therapist Matching
5 November 2025

Unlocking Success in Therapy: The Power of Personalised Therapist Matching

Well Connections offers personalised therapist matching, ensuring fast, tailored mental health support with no waiting lists. This approach accelerates therapy success, builds trust, and provides immediate access.

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The Cruel Game: When Teenage Boys “Bait” Girls for Explicit Photos
4 November 2025

The Cruel Game: When Teenage Boys “Bait” Girls for Explicit Photos

What looks like harmless teenage flirting can hide a cruel game where boys bait girls into sending explicit photos. Here is how to spot it and protect young people.

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Looking Beneath the Surface: How Psychodynamic Therapy Can Help You Feel Better for the Long Term
25 September 2025

Looking Beneath the Surface: How Psychodynamic Therapy Can Help You Feel Better for the Long Term

Discover how psychodynamic therapy helps uncover deep patterns, heal emotional wounds, and support long-term wellbeing for lasting positive change.

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Understanding Emotions – Friendships and Big Feelings at the End of Primary School
27 June 2025

Understanding Emotions – Friendships and Big Feelings at the End of Primary School

There’s a moment many parents will recognise – standing in the kitchen, chatting with a friend about our children’s changing friendships, and suddenly…

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Understanding the Stress-Gut Connection: How Emotional Strain Manifests Physically
27 June 2025

Understanding the Stress-Gut Connection: How Emotional Strain Manifests Physically

In today’s fast-paced world, many of us are no strangers to stress. Whether it’s emotional, mental, or even hidden physiological stress, its effects often…

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Single Session Therapy with Rebecca Bussy – Immediate Support When You Need It Most
27 June 2025

Single Session Therapy with Rebecca Bussy – Immediate Support When You Need It Most

At Well Connections, we know that sometimes, you need support without delay. Whether you’re navigating a difficult decision, feeling overwhelmed by a…

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Gambling Harm, Grief, and Activism – Reflections from Therapist Eugene Farrar
27 June 2025

Gambling Harm, Grief, and Activism – Reflections from Therapist Eugene Farrar

At Well Connections, we believe in the power of lived experience – not just in therapy, but in research and public awareness too. We’re proud to share that…

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How to Support Your Child in Counselling or Therapy
14 March 2025

How to Support Your Child in Counselling or Therapy

When your child begins counselling or therapy, it can feel like you’re stepping into unknown territory. You want to help them thrive but may not know…

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The Transformative Power of EMDR Therapy
10 December 2024

The Transformative Power of EMDR Therapy

At Well Connections, we pride ourselves on connecting clients with qualified psychologists and psychotherapists who are skilled in a variety of therapeutic…

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What Is Holistic Medicine?
23 January 2024

What Is Holistic Medicine?

Start a conversation with your body. It might have surprising things to tell you!

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Presence not Presents!
4 December 2023

Presence not Presents!

Christmas is a time of year that means different things to all of us. As we go through life, Christmas can reflect how life is feeling for us at the time.

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Navigating Child to Adolescent transitions: A Compassion Focused Approach
2 October 2023

Navigating Child to Adolescent transitions: A Compassion Focused Approach

As a forensic psychologist at Well Connections, I often work with families who are navigating the challenging transition from childhood to adolescence. This…

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Burnout And Your Hormones
20 September 2023

Burnout And Your Hormones

It is September and another working year swings into action. Hopefully you have been able to rest deeply during the summer, but as we know home and family…

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Empowering Empty Nesters at Well Connections
14 September 2023

Empowering Empty Nesters at Well Connections

It’s Autumn! A bittersweet time of change for many parents as older children are moving on to exciting new things; new terms, new jobs and flying the nest.

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