Category: General

Working in the mental health profession can feel very isolating at points. The majority of the time, therapists are working alone with their clients and this can easily make you feel very detached from other people. However, working in a … Read more

Willingness Team is a multidisciplinary team of professionals with a background in therapy, education, medicine, psychology and the social fields. In this blog I wished to share with you three of the many lessons that I have learnt through working … Read more

As we are celebrating the 10^th year anniversary of Willingness, I found myself looking back onto my own journey within the team. I remember the first qualities that had attracted me to apply for the role of a Family … Read more

My journey at Willingness started in 2014 back when I was a university student and a member of the psychology students organisation Betapsi. I met Matthew as part of our campaign called “Let’s Talk about Sex!”, a campaign to raise … Read more

After several years of experience working with different multidisciplinary teams, I thought I knew what I was going in for when I joined the Willingness team around 4 years ago… but I was totally wrong… in a good way!

First of … Read more

In therapy a therapist can make use of various techniques, exercises or experiments as part of the therapeutic process. The aim of such techniques is help support the client to gain further awareness, support the process of healing or reconciliation … Read more

When looking at your personality, do you see yourself as someone who is competitive and hard driven, or more laid back and easy-going? The way you see yourself actually determines whether you have a Type A or a Type B … Read more

I’m not saying anything new when saying how 2020 was a difficult year for many; a strange year to say the least. We were faced with restrictions that many never thought we would need to face, missing things that we … Read more

One of the main reasons we lack motivation to study is that we procrastinate. With the saying “I will do it later” or “I will do it tomorrow” looming in our head. But why do we procrastinate? There could be … Read more

Learning is a big part of growing up, and even in our early to late adulthood we still learn. Learning comes from multiples sources; learning from academic institutions, from intimate relationships, from parenting, as well as from our own actions. … Read more