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Stephen Cooper

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7 ways to manage anxiety and improve wellbeing Anxiety, of whatever kind, can be crippling. When anxious, you’re seized by uncertainty, and your body, mind, and heart are pushed into crisis mode. It makes it hard for you to function normally, let alone at your best. If left unaddressed, anxiety can worsen and wreak havoc … Read more

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The sound of Ed can help really assists clear thinking! Who knew? I thought that it would be worth mentioning this aspect of what Ed can help can do for you, because it’s come up twice this week in the therapy room. Two new patients whom I was seeing both arrived with very full, complicated, … Read more

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When I listen to the sound, my mind tends to wander. Is this normal? Several clients this week, whom I’ve seen personally and who are just setting off on their guided self-treatment using Ed can help have raised this question, so I thought it would be a good thing to share my response with everybody, because … Read more

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I really struggle with sleep. I follow all the conventional guidelines and yet I still have difficulties. Can you help? Difficulty sleeping tends to fall into two categories: struggling to get to sleep in the first place, and waking up during the night and not being able to drop off again. Several years ago I … Read more

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I want to control my drinking this summer, can you help me? The issue of alcohol, and how much we tend to drink, comes up regularly twice a year: Christmas, when everybody’s thinking of the parties, and Summer, with holidays and hopefully sunny gatherings outside. If you do a Google search of ways to reduce … Read more

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It’s not you, it’s me: how to break up with your therapist. When I mentioned this last week, I was being slightly tongue in cheek, and had decided to write about something completely different today.  But, working the way the Universe does, I was brought back to it this morning with someone’s real life situation.  … Read more

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My Psychotherapist is nice, but are they any good? Any article thinking about his question will usually begin with a handful of key points. These are quite pedestrian, but for the sake of inclusion (and dare I say to demonstrate my own competence!) I’m going to list them here before going on to talk about … Read more

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Procrastination: How to cut it out… (if you can get round to it) I remember as a child, like most young people, really not wanting to do some things or engage in certain activities. The stock response from my parents and in fact all the adults around me at that time was that this was … Read more

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I’m feeling anxious right now. What can I do? When I see a patient, and very often for the first time, they often come into the therapy room feeling anxious, and in a state of high anxiety. This is likely because it’s the presenting issue that needs to be reduced rapidly, in the short-medium, and … Read more

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How can I treat my anxiety, and start to feel better? We instinctively seem to recognise anxiety when we have it, what we’re feeling, and how unpleasant it can be, but often struggle to describe what it actually is. It’s a slippery fish. Is it an emotional feeling, negative thinking, or a physical sensation? For … Read more