Anxiety and Stress
For when the pressure has stopped feeling manageable. Posts in this category explore anxiety, overthinking, burnout, sleep difficulties, exam stress, and work-related stress - what they actually involve psychologically, and what tends to help.
When You and Your Teenager Don’t Seem to Speak the Same Language
Not every parent-teenager relationship is built on obvious common ground. This post explores what connection actually requires during adolescence, and how to find it when shared interests are absent.
Dr Erin Reid
Nov 23, 20254 min read
Sexual Difficulties: What They Often Signal and How Therapy Can Help
Sexual difficulties are among the most common and least spoken about reasons people seek therapy. This post explores what they often signal, and how psychological support can help.
Dr Erin Reid
Oct 19, 20253 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
Oct 5, 20253 min read
When Your Body Becomes Part of the Story: Living with Physical Health Challenges
Living with a physical health condition affects more than the body. This post explores the psychological dimensions of chronic illness and physical health challenges, and what therapy can offer.
Dr Erin Reid
Sep 28, 20252 min read
The Sandwich Generation: When You Are Holding Up Everyone Except Yourself
Many people in midlife find themselves simultaneously caring for their children and supporting ageing parents, with very little left over for themselves. This post explores what that life stage actually involves psychologically.
Dr Erin Reid
Sep 21, 20254 min read
Low Self-Confidence: When You Doubt Yourself in the Moments That Matter
Low self-confidence is not the same as low self-esteem — and the distinction matters. This post explores where confidence difficulties come from, when they tend to surface, and what tends to shift them.
Dr Erin Reid
Aug 17, 20253 min read
Low Self-Esteem: Where It Comes From and What Helps To Shifts It
Low self-esteem regularly brings people to therapy. This post explores where it comes from and what tends to shift it.
Dr Erin Reid
Aug 10, 20253 min read
Energy In: Why We Have Forgotten How to Restore Ourselves
We live in a culture that is almost entirely organised around energy out. This post explores what energy in actually looks like, why so many people have lost the ability to restore themselves, and why it matters.
Dr Erin Reid
Jul 20, 20255 min read
Work Difficulties: When the Problem Is Not Just the Job
Work difficulties are one of the most common reasons people seek therapy. This post explores what is often actually going on beneath the surface — and why the problem is rarely just the job.
Dr Erin Reid
Jul 13, 20254 min read
Academic and Exam Stress: When the Pressure Becomes Something More
Academic pressure affects students of all ages and when it becomes chronic, it can develop into something more significant than ordinary stress. This post explores what that experience involves and when support might help.
Dr Erin Reid
Jul 6, 20253 min read
Why Sleep Problems Are Rarely Just About Sleep
Sleep difficulties are one of the most common reasons people seek support and one of the most consistently misunderstood. This post explores what sleep problems often signal and how therapy can help.
Dr Erin Reid
Jun 29, 20253 min read
Stress: When Ordinary Pressure Becomes Something Harder to Carry
Stress is so common that it is often dismissed as ordinary. This post explores what stress actually involves, when it becomes a problem that warrants support, and what tends to help.
Dr Erin Reid
Jun 22, 20253 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
Jun 15, 20252 min read
Anxiety: What Your Nervous System Is Trying to Tell You
Anxiety is not the enemy. This post explores what anxiety is actually for, where chronic anxiety tends to come from, and what it means to develop a different relationship with the nervous system that has been working so hard to keep you safe.
Dr Erin Reid
Jun 11, 20256 min read
The Weight of High Expectations - The Bar That 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 things that might help.
Dr Erin Reid
Jun 8, 20252 min read
Social Anxiety: When the Room Feels Like a Test You Might Fail
Social anxiety is more than shyness. This post explores where it comes from, how it sustains itself, and what it takes to move through social situations without your worth feeling perpetually on the line.
Dr Erin Reid
Jun 4, 20256 min read
Why Overthinking is Not Necessarily 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
Jun 2, 20253 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
May 25, 20253 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
May 18, 20253 min read
'Walk and Talk' Therapy in North West London: What It Is and Whether It Might Be Right for You
'Walk and Talk' therapy offers something different from the therapy room or the online session. This post explores what it involves, why it can be therapeutically powerful, and the practical considerations worth knowing before you begin.
Dr Erin Reid
May 11, 20254 min read
