Low Mood and Feeling Stuck
For when life looks fine on the outside but something inside feels flat, heavy, or hard to shift. Posts here explore depression, low self-esteem, and the particular difficulty of feeling stuck without an obvious reason why.


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


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


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


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


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


'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


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
Jan 114 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
Jan 44 min read


When a Baby Arrives: Identity, Loss, and the Parts Nobody Talks About
Having a baby changes everything — including who you are. This post explores the identity shifts, the relationship changes, and the grief that can accompany new parenthood, particularly for professional women.
Dr Erin Reid
Dec 14, 20254 min read


Why So Many Women Reach Adulthood Without an ADHD Diagnosis — and What That Experience Involves
Many women reach midlife before anyone considers ADHD as an explanation for what they have been experiencing. This post explores why late diagnosis is so common — and what the undiagnosed years tend to involve.
Dr Erin Reid
Dec 7, 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
Nov 30, 20253 min read


Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Birth Trauma: The Grief Nobody Prepares You For
Infertility, miscarriage, and birth trauma involve losses that are real and significant — and that are often inadequately acknowledged by the world around them. This post explores what that experience involves psychologically.
Dr Erin Reid
Nov 23, 20253 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
Nov 16, 20252 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
Nov 2, 20253 min read


Trauma: What It Actually Is and Why It Stays
Trauma is widely misunderstood. This post explores what it actually involves psychologically, why it persists long after the event, and what therapeutic support can offer.
Dr Erin Reid
Oct 26, 20253 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
Oct 19, 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
Oct 12, 20252 min read


Grief: What Bereavement Actually Involves and Why It Takes as Long as It Takes
Grief is one of the most significant experiences a person can go through, and one of the most poorly understood. This post explores what bereavement actually involves — and why it cannot be hurried.
Dr Erin Reid
Oct 5, 20253 min read


Low Self-Esteem: Where It Comes From and What Shifts It
Low self-esteem is one of the most common difficulties people bring to therapy — and one of the most frequently misunderstood. This post explores where it actually comes from and what tends to shift it.
Dr Erin Reid
Sep 28, 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
Sep 21, 20253 min read


