Send us a text This week Richard & Fiona natter with Psychotherapist Alan Patching about how to have healing and helpful conversations with people who may not even be around anymore. Contact Alan: alanpatching@me.com Links Submit a question The Richard Nicholls Podcast The Brookhouse Hypnotherapy Group YouTube Channel Richard's Social Media Links T…

Send us a text It's Valentine's Day! The perfect time for Richard & Fiona to explore the psychological side of love. Links Submit a question The Richard Nicholls Podcast The Brookhouse Hypnotherapy Group YouTube Channel Richard's Social Media Links Twitter Instagram Facebook Youtube TikTok Threads Support Richard on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/…

Send us a text Almost half of the UK population consider themselves religious to some degree, whether that means they're a churchgoer or simply believe in a god. This week we chat with Kathy Spooner, CEO of The Association Of Christians in Counselling and Linked Professions, to explore how faith can play a part in our therapy. Contact Kathy at coun…

Send us a text In this week's episode of Therapy Natters, psychotherapists Richard Nicholls and Fiona Biddle dive deep into the concept of learned helplessness and attributions. They discuss how various facets such as ability, effort, task difficulty and luck contribute to the perception of success or failure in tasks. They also highlight how peopl…

Send us a text This week Richard & Fiona are nattering with Art Psychotherapist Lyni Sargent about the therapeutic benefits of making Art. https://www.instagram.com/starleng/ Links Submit a question The Richard Nicholls Podcast The Brookhouse Hypnotherapy Group YouTube Channel Richard's Social Media Links Twitter Instagram Facebook Youtube TikTok T…

Send us a text In this episode of Therapy Natters, join Richard & Fiona as they explore the influential psychological theory of OCEAN – the Big Five Personality Traits of Openness, Conscientiousness, Extroversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism – to gain insights into the complexities of what it is to be human! https://uk.indeed.com/career-advice/c…

Send us a text In this episode, hosts Richard Nicholls and Fiona Biddle speak with Dr. Rebecca Berman, a pain consultant with the NHS, to help explain the influence of perception and emotion on pain, the potential impacts of psychological trauma on pain experience, and techniques for managing pain. Links Submit a question The Richard Nicholls Podca…

Send us a text In this week's episode Richard Nicholls and Fiona Biddle explore the complex emotions of guilt and shame. Links Submit a question The Richard Nicholls Podcast The Brookhouse Hypnotherapy Group YouTube Channel Richard's Social Media Links Twitter Instagram Facebook Youtube TikTok Threads Support Richard on Patreon https://www.patreon.…

Send us a text This week Richard & Fiona have a returning guest, Sharon Mustard, to talk with them about how our psychology can easily get in the way of a better birthing experience. https://www.easibirthing.com Links Submit a question The Richard Nicholls Podcast The Brookhouse Hypnotherapy Group YouTube Channel Richard's Social Media Links Twitte…

Send us a text In this week's episode of Therapy Natters, Richard and Fiona dive deep into the topic of narcissism, specifically Narcissistic Personality Disorder, to distinguish between that and simply high self-esteem and assertiveness. Links Submit a question The Richard Nicholls Podcast The Brookhouse Hypnotherapy Group YouTube Channel Richard'…

Send us a text In this episode, Richard & Fiona are joined by hypno-psychotherapist Carlie Fairbrother to discuss food relationships, body image, and intuitive eating. https://cheshiretherapyroom.com/ Links Submit a question The Richard Nicholls Podcast The Brookhouse Hypnotherapy Group YouTube Channel Richard's Social Media Links Twitter Instagram…

Send us a text This week Richard & Fiona talk all about Cognitive Distortions, the thinking traps that we all fall into that can so easily spoil our lives or at best hold us back. Links Submit a question The Richard Nicholls Podcast The Brookhouse Hypnotherapy Group YouTube Channel Richard's Social Media Links Twitter Instagram Facebook Youtube Tik…

Send us a text In this week's episode of the Therapy Natters podcast, Richard & Fiona engage in a thought-provoking dialogue with special guest Zayna Brookhouse, a specialist in equality, diversity, and inclusion. The conversation spans a wide range of topics from the fluidity of gender and sexuality, the evolution of sociocultural norms, to the im…

Send us a text In this episode of Therapy Natters, psychotherapists Richard Nicholls and Fiona Biddle discuss the concept of attachment theory. They explore how our early experiences with caregivers can shape our interactions and reactions as adults, whether it be in friendships, relationships, or even why we follow a football team. 00:00 Introduct…

Send us a text It's guest week. Richard & Fiona have an old friend Bill Hard to join them this week to talk about his Buddhist experiences. https://www.dayandnighttherapy.com/bill-hard/ You can also find more about Bill's and other's work at the Monroe Institute in their app https://info.monroeinstitute.org/get-expand-app Links Submit a question Th…

Send us a text This week we're answering a listener question about what being a full-time therapist is actually like. The pros, the cons and everything in-between. Links Submit a question The Richard Nicholls Podcast The Brookhouse Hypnotherapy Group YouTube Channel Richard's Social Media Links Twitter Instagram Facebook Youtube TikTok Threads Supp…

Send us a text This week Richard and Fiona are joined by psychotherapist Shaun Brookhouse to natter about the complexity of forgiveness, its relation to accountability, repentance and the concept of accepting imperfections. shaunbrookhouse.com Links Submit a question The Richard Nicholls Podcast The Brookhouse Hypnotherapy Group YouTube Channel Ric…

Send us a text The psychiatrist Iain McGilcrist published a book back in 2009 called The Master and His Emissary all about what our left brain and right brain really do. Because it's quite complicated Fiona thought it would be nice to try and make it understandable for all of us, and to see how it explains why hypnotherapy can be so useful. https:/…

Send us a text We have another guest this week, Jan McGregor Hepburn, a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, who joins us to talk about psychoanalysis and its principles. We discuss the differences between various types of therapy, the role of the unconscious mind, and the practice of analysis. Jan McGregor Hepburn Links Submit a question The Richard Ni…

Send us a text This week it's all about Apathy. That feeling where you have no interest and no energy for one reason or another. Let's have a little look shall we? Links Submit a question The Richard Nicholls Podcast The Brookhouse Hypnotherapy Group YouTube Channel Richard's Social Media Links Twitter Instagram Facebook Youtube TikTok Threads Supp…

Send us a text It's guest week on Therapy Natters. And this week Richard & Fiona are nattering with family, systemic & couples therapist Inger Gordon. https://www.psychotherapy.org.uk/therapist/Inger-Gordon-iAieSAAS Links Submit a question The Richard Nicholls Podcast The Brookhouse Hypnotherapy Group YouTube Channel Richard's Social Media Links Tw…

Send us a text This week Richard & Fiona are nattering in response to a listener question about anxiety and test conditions. Links Submit a question The Richard Nicholls Podcast The Brookhouse Hypnotherapy Group YouTube Channel Richard's Social Media Links Twitter Instagram Facebook Youtube TikTok Threads Support Richard on Patreon https://www.patr…

Send us a text This week Richard & Fiona are chatting with the author, consultant and human rights campaigner Julian Harrison about what it's like being in therapy. https://julianharrison.wordpress.com Links Submit a question The Richard Nicholls Podcast The Brookhouse Hypnotherapy Group YouTube Channel Richard's Social Media Links Twitter Instagra…

Send us a text This week Richard & Fiona have a natter about the concept of "Ego States" in Transactional Analysis. The idea being that we can break our personality down into 3 different states of Parent Adult and Child. Links Submit a question The Richard Nicholls Podcast The Brookhouse Hypnotherapy Group YouTube Channel Richard's Social Media Lin…

Send us a text Autism is a highly misunderstood condition, probably due to autistic people's varied strengths and weaknesses. So this week Richard & Fiona are chatting with therapist Paula Stone, who works as an advisor in schools helping people with neurodivergent traits to understand more about why they feel the way that they feel. https://www.me…

Send us a text This week Richard & Fiona answer a listener question about staying motivated when job hunting. Links Submit a question The Richard Nicholls Podcast The Brookhouse Hypnotherapy Group YouTube Channel Richard's Social Media Links Twitter Instagram Facebook Youtube TikTok Threads Support Richard on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/richard…

Send us a text Richard & Fiona are joined this week by Psychotherapist David Corr. David is very interested in Internal Family Systems as well as Parts Therapy, and how they integrate so well together in the therapy room. http://davidcorr.co.uk Links Submit a question The Richard Nicholls Podcast The Brookhouse Hypnotherapy Group YouTube Channel Ri…

Send us a text Making decisions can be hard especially when our emotions get in the way. Back in the early 1980s Maltese psychologist Edward de Bono, inventor of the phrase "Lateral Thinking" proposed an idea to help streamline our decision-making. He called them The 6 Thinking Hats. Blue Hat: "The Controller's Hat" When you are in blue hat mode, y…

Send us a text Andrew Turnbull chats with Richard & Fiona this week about the concept of people-pleasing. https://cheadletherapy.co.uk Links Submit a question The Richard Nicholls Podcast The Brookhouse Hypnotherapy Group YouTube Channel Richard's Social Media Links Twitter Instagram Facebook Youtube TikTok Threads Support Richard on Patreon https:…

Send us a text This week Richard & Fiona talk about Empty Nest Syndrome and having relationships with your children when they're no longer children. Links Submit a question The Richard Nicholls Podcast The Brookhouse Hypnotherapy Group YouTube Channel Richard's Social Media Links Twitter Instagram Facebook Youtube TikTok Threads Support Richard on …

Send us a text This week we're joined by fellow therapist Eve Stanway who wanted to talk to us about anxiety and how we share our issues with other people. https://evestanway.co.uk Links Submit a question The Richard Nicholls Podcast The Brookhouse Hypnotherapy Group YouTube Channel Richard's Social Media Links Twitter Instagram Facebook Youtube Ti…

Send us a text This week is all about how we take our feelings about one person (even ourselves) and put them onto another. Links Submit a question The Richard Nicholls Podcast The Brookhouse Hypnotherapy Group YouTube Channel Richard's Social Media Links Twitter Instagram Facebook Youtube TikTok Threads Support Richard on Patreon https://www.patre…

Send us a text It's guest week. This week Richard & Fiona are nattering with Life Coach Kate Jackson about the differences between coaching and therapy. Kate Jackson - https://castandmint.co.uk Find a coach International Coaching Federation - https://coachingfederation.org Association for Coaching - https://www.associationforcoaching.com Links Subm…

Send us a text Bullying is a damaging and painful experience. One that isn't easily forgotten. So today Richard & Fiona delve as lightheartedly as they can into what we can do to deal with it. Links Submit a question The Richard Nicholls Podcast The Brookhouse Hypnotherapy Group YouTube Channel Richard's Social Media Links Twitter Instagram Faceboo…

Send us a text This week we're joined by psychotherapist and archeologist Dr Alan Greaves who talks about how issues like PTSD are not as recent as we might think. You can find more about Alan on his Academic Blog https://milesiantales.wordpress.com And read some of his work here https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3009723/1/Greaves%20PTSD%202013…

Send us a text As an adult, making friends isn't as easy as it was when we were forced to sit next to each other at school or kick a ball around a playground together. Maybe we can find ways of making it easier. Links Submit a question The Richard Nicholls Podcast The Brookhouse Hypnotherapy Group YouTube Channel Richard's Social Media Links Twitte…

Send us a text This week we spoke with Lynn Boudreau, psychotherapist, hypnotherapist and coach based in Cardiff. Lynn is also an opera singer with an interest in working with performers. https://mindbydesign.co.uk Links Submit a question The Richard Nicholls Podcast The Brookhouse Hypnotherapy Group YouTube Channel Richard's Social Media Links Twi…

Send us a text Weight loss is a very complicated topic and me and Fiona could have talked about different aspects of it for hours and hours. Hopefully we covered some of the basics and important bits in today's episode and struck a balance between too much info and too little. Links Submit a question The Richard Nicholls Podcast The Brookhouse Hypn…

Send us a text This week we're talking to UKCP Psychotherapist Gordon Buky Webster, an ex Royal Marine who specialises in working with trauma. https://www.psychotherapy.org.uk/therapist/gordon-webster-iahxyaac/ Links Submit a question The Richard Nicholls Podcast The Brookhouse Hypnotherapy Group YouTube Channel Richard's Social Media Links Twitter…

Send us a text This weeks TN is about the regulation (or lack of) of talking therapies in the UK. Many people seek out psychotherapy not realising that hypnotherapy might be more appropriate for their issue. But, more importantly, many people look into hypnotherapy thinking the therapist is also a qualified psychotherapist when they usually are not…

Send us a text This week we have another guest with us, Hypno-Psychotherapist Lauren Jacobs, to talk about fertility. It was a lovely chat and I hope you find what we say interesting. x https://www.laurenjacobstherapy.co.uk/ Links Submit a question The Richard Nicholls Podcast The Brookhouse Hypnotherapy Group YouTube Channel Richard's Social Media…

Send us a text W/C 15th May is Hoarding Awareness Week and so this week Richard & Fiona have a good delve into Hoarding Disorder. Hoarding has become a bigger problem than it used to be and it would be good for us all to have a greater understanding of it. https://hoardinguk.org/events/space-time-stuff/ Links Submit a question The Richard Nicholls …

Send us a text Lucid dreaming is different to normal dreaming in that sleepers are aware they are dreaming and, in some cases, can exert conscious control over it. Today's episode features a guest from the field of lucid dreams to tell us all about it, hypno-psychotherapist Luigi Sciambarella. Find Luigi at https://www.dayandnighttherapy.com Links …

Send us a text This weeks Therapy Natters episode is all about why some experiences make us react more than others and how to find better perspectives. Enjoy Links Submit a question The Richard Nicholls Podcast The Brookhouse Hypnotherapy Group YouTube Channel Richard's Social Media Links Twitter Instagram Facebook Youtube TikTok Threads Support Ri…

Send us a text This week we have a little natter with an old friend William Davies. He has a great interest in compassion and how it plays into mindfulness. So we thought he could share some wisdom with us all. Enjoy X https://www.williamjamestherapy.com Links Submit a question The Richard Nicholls Podcast The Brookhouse Hypnotherapy Group YouTube …

Send us a text What's the difference between knowing something and believing something? There are lots of things that people believe, that aren't necessarily reality. Today we'll explore a bit of that. Links Submit a question The Richard Nicholls Podcast The Brookhouse Hypnotherapy Group YouTube Channel Richard's Social Media Links Twitter Instagra…

Send us a text Another guest this week. This time it's the turn of an old friend Danielle Lyons. Danielle is a Counsellor and Hypnotherapist in Essex with a particular interest in helping people understand more about what it is to be "menopausal." This was a really interesting natter and I think we can all learn a lot from listening. Links Submit a…

Send us a text Today Richard & Fiona are talking about a common topic for the therapy room. The strange and often upsetting experience of our own imagination! Links Submit a question The Richard Nicholls Podcast The Brookhouse Hypnotherapy Group YouTube Channel Richard's Social Media Links Twitter Instagram Facebook Youtube TikTok Threads Support R…

Send us a text This week we have another guest. A wonderful friend of ours called Ludwig Esser who works as a therapist in Swansea. He has a real interest in using nature in therapy so we thought we'd invite him onto the show to talk about it a little. I hope you enjoy what we have to natter about. Links Submit a question The Richard Nicholls Podca…

Send us a text According to Self Determination Theory, all of us have three key psychological needs; Autonomy, Competence and Relatedness. In this episode Richard & Fiona have a look at how these can influence our motivation if the levels of these 3 "needs" are not quite where they should be. Links Submit a question The Richard Nicholls Podcast The…