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Online Therapy: Does it Actually Work?
Many people wonder whether online therapy is as effective as seeing someone in person. This post explores what the evidence suggests — and what makes it work in practice.
Dr Erin Reid
Jun 22, 20254 min read


When a Relationship Ends: Grieving a Romantic Breakup
The end of a romantic relationship is a genuine loss, and it deserves to be grieved as one. This post explores what that process actually involves — and why it can be harder than it looks.
Dr Erin Reid
7 days ago4 min read


When Your Adult Child Knows a Language You Were Never Taught
Parenting a psychologically informed generation when your own upbringing was defined by pushing through is more complicated than it looks. This post explores the tensions on both sides honestly.
Dr Erin Reid
May 244 min read


Family Therapy: When One Person’s Difficulty is Everyone’s
Family difficulties rarely belong to just one person. This post explores what family therapy involves, when it is more appropriate than individual therapy, and what it can offer.
Dr Erin Reid
May 173 min read


Therapy for Teenagers: What Teenagers and Their Parents Should Know
Thinking about therapy for your teenager but unsure where to start? This post covers what adolescent therapy involves, how to approach it with a young person, and what to look for in a therapist.
Dr Erin Reid
May 113 min read


Why Couples Keep Having the Same Argument — and What It is Usually About
Recurring conflict in relationships is rarely about the surface issue. This post explores the patterns beneath repeated arguments and what can help shift them.
Dr Erin Reid
May 33 min read


Online Couples Therapy: What It is, How It Works, and Whether It Might Help
A practical and honest guide to online couples therapy — what it involves, what it can and cannot offer, and how to know whether it might be the right step for your relationship.
Dr Erin Reid
Apr 262 min read


The Weight of High Expectations — The Bar is Always Just Out of Reach
High expectations — from yourself, from others, or from the world you grew up in — can drive achievement and quietly erode wellbeing at the same time. This post explores the psychological cost and what might help.
Dr Erin Reid
Apr 192 min read


Why High Achievers Often Struggle Most to Ask for Help
People who manage complexity well at work often find it hardest to acknowledge when they need support. This post explores the psychological dynamic behind that pattern.
Dr Erin Reid
Apr 122 min read


Midlife and the Feeling That Something Needs to Change
Midlife can bring a quiet but persistent sense that life needs to look different — even when nothing is obviously wrong. This post explores what that experience often involves psychologically.
Dr Erin Reid
Apr 63 min read


Why Boundaries Feel So Hard — and What That Might Be About
Many people understand intellectually that they need better boundaries but find them almost impossible to maintain in practice. This post explores the psychological reasons why.
Dr Erin Reid
Mar 293 min read


Why Overthinking is Not a Thinking Problem
Overthinking is often approached as something to think your way out of. This post explores why that rarely works — and what overthinking is usually a signal of.
Dr Erin Reid
Mar 233 min read


Feeling Stuck Despite a Good Life: What Therapy Can Offer
Feeling stuck when there is no obvious reason to is disorienting and hard to explain. This post explores what psychological stuckness actually involves and how therapy can help shift it.
Dr Erin Reid
Mar 153 min read


What Burnout Actually is — and Why Rest Alone Does Not Fix It
Burnout is widely misunderstood as exhaustion that resolves with time off. This post looks at what burnout actually involves psychologically, and what genuine recovery requires
Dr Erin Reid
Mar 83 min read


High-Functioning Anxiety: When Everything Looks Fine But it Isn’t
High-functioning anxiety often goes unrecognised because it can look like conscientiousness, competence, and drive. This post explores what it actually involves — and how it differs from other conditions that can look similar.
Dr Erin Reid
Mar 13 min read


Parenting Adult Children: When the Role Has to Change
The transition from parenting a child to having an adult-to-adult relationship with them is one of the least discussed challenges of midlife. This post explores what that shift requires and what gets in the way.
Dr Erin Reid
Feb 155 min read


When the Tables Turn: Becoming the Parent of Your Parent
There is a gradual shift that happens between adult children and their ageing parents that is rarely spoken about. This post explores the quiet grief, the role reversal, and what it asks of us psychologically.
Dr Erin Reid
Feb 84 min read


'Failure' to Launch: Parenting Adult Children in 2026
Adult children in 2026 are facing a different world from the one their parents launched into. This post explores the psychological and practical dimensions of so called ‘failure to launch’ - including the role neurodiversity can play.
Dr Erin Reid
Feb 15 min read


Navigating Perimenopause and Menopause: How Therapy Can Help
Perimenopause and menopause involve more than physical symptoms. This post explores the psychological dimensions — identity, relationships, mood, and what therapy can offer during this transition.
Dr Erin Reid
Jan 263 min read


The Unspoken Grief of Friendships Coming to an End
Friendship endings rarely get the acknowledgement they deserve. This post explores the different ways friendships come to an end — the gradual drift, the quiet quit, the attempted repair — and what the grief of losing them actually involves.
Dr Erin Reid
Jan 195 min read


