Working with clients from all over the world, I often find myself spending time between sessions, researching about their cultures, learning about the history of the place they’re from, thinking about their language, about what it may have been like … Read more
Do you tempt your child to communicate?
Language is considered to be one of the biggest milestones across child development. It involves active learning of different sounds, words, language rules as well as sentence structures (Raising Children Network, 2023).
One way of encouraging communication in young children … Read more
How does depression affect self-care?
Self-care is the ability to take care of your biological needs like eating, sleeping and grooming and also those personal needs that help you nurture your mental well-being like listening to music or doing art. Self-care is vital to physical, … Read more
Is my phone burning me out?
With the rise of technology, we are now more interconnected than ever. As much as it makes things easier to have everything available at the tap of a finger, there is also the risk of people getting burnt out due … Read more
Myth-busting – Neurocognitive Disorders
Neurocognitive disorders are disorders with an acquired rather than a developmental impairment in cognitive function. This means that impaired cognition has not been present since birth or very early in life. These disorders include several subcategories such as delirium, NCD … Read more
What is alexithymia?
From time to time, I have a client that struggles with emotions, and not in the maybe usual way. It’s not that their emotions are too overwhelming, or that they feel they’re out of their control necessarily. Sometimes they report … Read more
When should they be doing what? – Are milestones necessary?
Child development milestones may cause unnecessary stress and anxiety for parents and caregivers. While milestones give us an indication of the child’s development when compared to typically developing children, the need to reach milestones by a certain time-frame during the … Read more
Why am I constantly tired?
Fatigue is widespread in the general population, frequently presented in primary care and increasingly reported in the working population. Because it affects employees’ productivity, ability to focus, and general expenses, fatigue in the workplace has received renewed attention. Though little … Read more
Kif il-Ġenituri Jistgħu Jgħinu lil Uliedhom Jikkontrollaw ir-Rabja
Bħal kull emozzjoni oħra, ir-rabja hi normali. Però, it-tfal mhux dejjem jirnexxielhom jgħarfu d-differenza bejn rabja u attitudni aggressiva. F’temp ta’ ftit sekondi, ir-rabja u l-frustrazzjoni jaf iwasslu għal diżrispett u aggressjoni, speċjalment meta t-tfal ma jkunux jafu jikkontrollaw l-emozzjonijiet … Read more