Press

Sam in interview with Livescience.com on why some people ‘choke’ – panic – under pressure and how this has links back to their childhood experiences and how these influence treat responses as an adult.

Mark provided comment for The Guardian’s column ‘Ask Annalisa Barbieri’ as an expert contributor on a reader’s questions relating to to whether she should move back to New Zealand to be near family, or stay in the UK.

Mark was asked to contribute to this article for Mr Porter on how too much of a focus on self care can be detrimental to oneself and to relationships.  As with anything, self care can function as a manic defence against feeling in some cases.

Sam being interviewed by The Daily Beast on the topic of online stalking: why people do it and the impact on those who are stalked.

Sam in interview with Livescience.com on the topic of happiness, what it means and how we can cultivate a positive view of self, others and the world around us.

Sam in interview with women’s lifestyle website Popsugar discussing how and when it may be appropriate for a someone to comment on their partner’s weight and how to approach this sensitive subject.

Sam in interview with Livescience.com on the topic of mindful eating and how slowing down our intake of food down can improve our emotional as well as physical wellbeing.

Mark in interview with Livescience.com on how long it takes to build a new habit, dispelling the myth that it takes only 21 days and discussing some of the variables that make habit formation more likely.

Mark in a feature interview with Newsweek talking about his career as a psychotherapist and then offering specific examples on how to go about having a conflict free Christmas with family.

Mark in interview with Stylist Magazine online, on behalf of the UKCP, commenting on why we are more likely to regress psychologically over the Christmas period and what we can do about it.

Mark contributing to a Guardian piece on surfing family Christmas’ and in particular how to avoid getting caught in other people’s envious attacks or projections.

Mark in interview with Metro on the psychology of why we overspend at Christmas and how excessive gift giving is part of an unconscious need to create the ‘perfect’ day in order to ward off any ambivalent or uncomfortable feelings of Christmas past and relationships with family.

Mark in interview with Metro on behalf of the UKCP talking about what lies behind feelings of of dread and how best to get some perspective and distance from these feelings.

Sam was interviewed for a piece in The Express on what the effects are on teenagers of being exposed to online violence and how this can impact on both their emotional health and their capacity to relate to others as they develop.

Part 2 of 2 – Sam Jahara in interview with Cult Vault talking about her own personal experience of growing up in the Rajneesh Cult (also known as Osho) and bringing her psychological perspective on the impact this, and other such cults, have on the children of parents who sacrifice their lives in the purported goal of spiritual enlightenment.

Part 1 of 2 – Sam Jahara in interview with Cult Vault talking about her own personal experience of growing up in the Rajneesh Cult (also known as Osho) and bringing her psychological perspective on the impact this, and other such cults, have on the children of parents who sacrifice their lives in the purported goal of spiritual enlightenment.

Mark in interview with The Daily Express on how the process of grieving is affected when a loved one is murdered. Such a loss becomes very difficult to process and the outcome is that without psychological support, the loss is experienced as trauma and remains so for the bereaved and the wider community.

Should psychotherapy notes be privileged in rape trials?  Mark was interviewed by inews.co.uk on this contentious topic to get his views a a clinician in terms of the impact on those seeking pre-trial psychotherapy as well as the impact on the psychotherapy process itself.