A couple of weeks we published Rick’s latest book, ‘How to have a happy separation or divorce: A Three Phase Approach to Conscious Uncoupling’. Here, we can read what the new book is all about. Introduction On 25th March 2014 the film star Gwyneth Paltrow used the phrase ‘conscious uncoupling’ to refer to the process… Read More

As we said in a previous article stoicism has been studied and utilised by thousands of people over at least two millennia. We also pointed out that stoicism was one of the dominant philosophies that has underpinned cognitive behavioural therapy and rational emotive and behavioural therapy over the last four decades. As promised, we are… Read More

In our previous articles exploring the MHD way we have looked briefly at a number of the scientific and philosophical principles that underpin what we do, what we believe and why. We have examined Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and REBT, two similar psychotherapies perhaps born from stoicism. It therefore seems appropriate to take a deeper look… Read More

There’s method in our madness. Here at MHD we have a framework and a philosophy that instructs what we do – this isn’t just a place for quick advice or a rest home for agony aunts. So what is it that makes us who we are? In the first of our series of articles outlining… Read More

  It is no secret that here at Mind Health Development we favour a methodology based on CBT or cognitive behavioural therapy. It might also come as no surprise that we are probably in favour of a big ‘B’ in our CBT as behavioural methods are some of our favourite approaches. But we do enjoy… Read More

This is the last part of the three-part article on Risk, Decision Making and Critical Thinking. In the first part I highlighted that in order to make better decisions in all aspects of our life, and especially in times of change and adversity, we need to understand three elements: The nature of risk The processes… Read More