Anger is just an emotional reaction to our own perspective of a situation and help lies in understanding this. Whether feeling disrespected, humiliated or frightened makes you angry, this can be worked through in therapy. By recognising your individual signs and triggers of anger as well as ways to challenge angry thoughts you will be better placed to let situations go and address them with assertiveness whilst remaining in control.

We all have stress and worry in our everyday lives, but when this crosses over into anxiety it can have a devastating impact. Your quality of life can be impacted, and it can feel that you are surviving from one moment to the next rather than living your life.

Previously known as manic depression, bipolar is a condition that causes periods of depression and periods of abnormally elevated mood known as mania. In both ways this can cause difficulties. Firstly, when manic, you can act in impulsive ways, overspending or taking risks and it can have a devastating impact on your relationships.

When depressed we can often get caught up in cycles that make the depression worse. For example, if you don’t feel good about yourself, you may not want to go out and disengage from others. By getting out of the habit of such activities and accessing support we can reinforce the depression. Depression can be overcome and step by step you can climb out of the dark place and reclaim your life.

OCD is commonly spoken about without full understanding. People may say 'I’m a bit OCD' indicating that they are organised or particular about things. This negates the great distress that sufferers of obsessive-compulsive disorder are going through. OCD can take many forms such as rituals around washing, checking as well as having disturbing intrusive thoughts that we wish we could get rid of.

A diagnosis of a borderline personality disorder can feel overwhelming but what this means is that it has been very difficult to manage your emotions, that you can find relationships to be difficult and that you may have engaged in behaviours to manage the emotional distress such as self-harm.

Phobias are irrational fears that can cause huge amounts of distress and anxiety. Such phobias can range from busy or crowded places, driving, flying, vomiting, incontinence, frogs, heights, spiders.....to almost anything. Exposure to such feared objects can cause panic and high levels of anxiety and can really interfere with your daily life.

When a significant traumatic event happens in our lives we can often feel fundamentally changed as a person and alters the way we see the world. It can feel that we carry the trauma around with us and yet at the same time find it hard to process what really happened. This can lead us to have difficulty in getting back to 'normal' and it is common to experience high levels of anxiety, feelings of anger or guilt.