By Chris Welford on 4th February, 2015 in Coaching, Psychotherapy & Counselling
Many professional people will have heard of and perhaps experienced burn-out. Like the terms ‘low’, ‘stressed’ and the other commonplace descriptions used to explain what happens when our psychological fuel tank runs empty, what they mean is unique to each person. However, there is the lesser-known cousin to burn-out which...
By Chris Welford on 7th January, 2015 in Psychotherapy & Counselling
There’s no doubt that at some point in the last week you have thought about change. Your intentions will be real enough and you will have learnt from last year won’t you? This year if you have made resolutions they will have been realistic, there will be fewer of...
By Chris Welford on 14th February, 2014 in Psychotherapy & Counselling
A couple of years ago I attended a workshop with one of the last remaining, living disciples of Eric Berne, the founder of transactional analysis. As I listened to Claude Steiner, a powerful and provocative figure now in his seventies, I wondered if there was still a place for the...
By Chris Welford on 21st October, 2013 in Psychotherapy & Counselling
A quarter of the UK population has at some time has been diagnosed with depression with up to 15% of people in employment taking time off. That’s 4.5 million working people at least! The cost of poor mental health is colossal – £1,000 per employee per year or almost £26...
By Chris Welford on 21st August, 2013 in Psychotherapy & Counselling
Chris Welford is a business psychologist and he has worked extensively within SERCO prisons. His original role was in assessing and coaching senior managers and during one of these interviews the conversation touched on the effects of light on the behaviour of people in prison. This eventually led to Serco...
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