Writing about psychotherapy, trauma-informed services and what it’s like to be a therapy client
Therapy regret is more common than you think (the i paper)
The truth about harm in therapy (Therapy Today)
Why are we still giving children a personality disorder diagnosis? (The Lead)
UKCP backtracks on conversion therapy (The Lead)
Healers in crisis: how psychotherapists can help NHS workers (Therapy Today)
A piece of the pie: how the 2024 election result affects counsellors (Therapy Today)
Personality disorders: Time to dump the ‘dustbin diagnosis’? (Therapy Today)
Why therapy should not be ‘colourblind’ (The Lead)
Local trust diagnoses ‘personality disorder’ in under-18s, FOI shows (Hackney Citizen)
Reckoning with the damage of purity culture (The Revealer)
What to say when someone starts using therapy speak at you (Vice)
This pilot aims to keep addicts out of jail – but some fear the opposite will happen (the i paper)
Pre-trial therapy: What therapists need to know about legal changes (Therapy Today, Dec-Jan 2025 issue)
More than a third of doctors in crisis show ADHD traits 🔒 (Doctors.net.uk)
Q&A with Dr James Fish, NHS GP (Tricycle: The Buddhist Review)
You don't just 'grow out of' self-harm (Refinery29)
The ‘alcopause’: how sobriety is solving menopause hangxiety (the i paper)
Stress and burnout: why midwives are leaving their jobs (Refinery29)
How, exactly, therapy stops you body-shaming yourself 🔒 (Stylist)
Living with IBD: a new study is exploring how CBT affects inflammatory bowel disease (Stylist)
Manage climate anxiety with these Cold War coping techniques (Lifehacker)
The climate experts who burned out (Deutsche Welle)
Brexit is a nightmare for farmers’ mental health (Vice)
Move over, mindfulness: it’s time for ‘finefulness’ (The Guardian)
Can happiness courses really make you happier? (Lifehacker)
The yoga retreat subsidising breaks for refugees (The Independent)
‘Throwing yourself in cuts through everything’: winter swimming in London (Time Out)
Photo: Gabby Jones. Credit: Refinery29.
More of my health and wellness stories
2026 – coming soon
How 'deconstruction' is opening the door to a new wave of secularism (New Humanist, Spring 2026 issue)
Trust in the dust: How loss of faith in institutions is hurting therapists (Therapy Today, 2026)
Losing our religion: Working with clients in and after faith crisis (Therapy Today, 2026)
2025
Lobular breast cancer is the second-most common form of breast cancer, so why have so few women heard of it? (Glamour UK)
Twelve women on debt, how it feels, and how they cope (Cosmopolitan UK on Apple News)
Offering the morning-after pill without charge at pharmacies will reduce financial impact on NHS, doctors say 🔒 (Doctors.net.uk)
Domestic abuse 'rife' amongst healthcare workers as NHS launches first awareness day 🔒 (Doctors.net.uk)
Why the link between your brain and immune system can affect everything from memory to focus 🔒 (Stylist)
Doctors' counselling service to review domestic violence competence as cases mount 🔒 (Doctors.net.uk)
2024
The 'noctor' will see you now: why physician associates are causing a ruckus (The Lead)
Women with cancer are being barred from a life-extending drug (Glamour UK)
Vaping made me feel stupid. This is how I quit – and you can too (the i paper)
NHS Staff Survey: Workforce recovers from pandemic but raises harassment concerns (Hospital Healthcare Europe)
Feasibility of using search data to detect malignancy confirmed (Hospital Healthcare Europe)
HRT: fact-checking risks and benefits (Patient)
How to eat a calcium-rich vegetarian diet (Patient)
Psychologists and wellness experts on the mood-boosting exercises you can do in five minutes or less (Stylist)
2023
Police are trying to access period tracker app data to investigate ‘unexplained pregnancy losses’ (Glamour UK)
Is Gillian Anderson’s new anthology of women’s sexual fantasies too restrictive? (LitHub)
Q&A: Dr Julian Treadwell, project lead, GP Evidence (NASGP)
How does race affect menopause care? (Patient)
What are postbiotics? The gut health buzzword explained, and if we should all be taking them (the i paper)
Why spending £300 on a poop 'microbiome' test might be a solid gold waste of money (the i paper)
New app aims to reduce blood clot risk and prevent hospitalisation (Hospital Healthcare Europe)
On-call should be opt-in for senior doctors aged over 60, Royal Colleges advise (Hospital Healthcare Europe)
Discharge funding in England comes with strings attached: King‘s Fund (Hospital Healthcare Europe)
2022
My dad was dying alone in hospital while I obeyed Covid-19 lockdown rules (Glamour UK)
How to break up with 2022, the right way (Refinery29)
Why 100,000 nurses are going on strike this winter (Glamour UK)
‘It’s the opposite of censorship’: How sensitivity readers are changing publishing (the i paper)
Eight glasses of water, 10,000 steps, five a day: healthy rules or marketing myths? 🔒 (the i paper)
Spending £300 on a poop ‘microbiome’ test looks like a solid gold waste of money 🔒 (the i paper)
What are postbiotics? The latest gut health buzzword explained 🔒 (the i paper)
Menopause: why aren’t Black and Asian women more included in the discourse? (Stylist)
Why are women under 40 more at risk of developing diabetes now? (Stylist)
How to hibernate like a pro (Stylist)
‘Time to tell this story about the relational within general practice’: Polly Morland (NASGP)
2021
The hidden strain of being a midwife (Refinery29)
What’s the link between eating disorders and diabetes? (Patient)
How to hang on to a lockdown lifestyle (Patient)
Shielders: how can vulnerable people stay safe as restrictions end? (Patient)
Can I treat chronic pain with CBD? (Patient)
What is cancer 'prehabilitation'? (Patient)
What to do when you're waiting for drug or alcohol services (Patient)
What mental health support is available to veterans? (Patient)
2020
Anti-vaxx parents exist in the UK too – here’s what it’s like to grow up with one (Vice)
Teacher trainees are more likely to misread black children as angry than white children (BPS Research Digest)
Why are Black and Asian people at greater risk from COVID-19? (Patient)
What are the long-term health impacts of coronavirus? (Patient)
‘An almost 100% increase’: the pandemic surge at doctors’ counselling services (NASGP)
What health support is available for carers? (Patient)
Feature: Time Out, 2019.
2019
Europe to Australia, without flying (Deutsche Welle)
How Nwando Ebizie shows neuro-typical audiences what ‘visual snow’ looks like (Litro)
Things you only know if you’re a Big Issue seller (Time Out)
‘Many Janeites discovered Austen when they were struggling’: community in fandom (LitHub)
What to do if you get the urge to self-harm (Patient)
Can spending time in nature benefit your mental health? (Patient)
How to eat well when it’s hard to shop and cook (Patient)
Is it safe to take opioid painkillers? (Patient)
Does obesity really cause cancer? (Patient)
How to cope with isolation after a stroke (Patient)
Can you reverse type 2 diabetes? (Patient)
How to stay body positive over Christmas (Patient)
2018
‘I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at 29’ (Refinery29)
The yoga retreat co-subsidising breaks for refugees (The Independent)
Positive News, 2017.
2017
The inmates who teach other prisoners to read (Positive News)
What it was like to go to the doctor in 1610 (Vice)
Why we can’t stop watching Doctor Foster (The Pool)
“I just wanted to do it just to prove her wrong”: Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly of Lady Macbeth (The F Word)
What’s Done Is Done: Lady Macbeth reviewed (The Quietus)
Top of the Lake: a crime drama that truly explores violence against women (The Pool)
The UK’s free healthcare system isn’t doing much for its STD problem (Vice)
We sent a feminist to the UK’s first porn film festival (Refinery29)
“Be vigilant. Don’t give up. Save your work. Keep your sense of humour”: Lynn Hershman Leeson on !Women Art Revolution (Litro)
2016
‘Most women still have a terror of fat, even if they are allies’: why feminists still can’t handle fat girls (For Books’ Sake)
‘Sound is powerful… like our sense of smell’: an interview with Chris Watson (Caught by the River)
One woman’s ‘clean’ diet where she literally eats dust is eye-opening - but so is the shockingly cruel response (The Independent)
Pulse magazine, 2015.
Photo: Laura Chen. Credit: Refinery29.
2014
‘Prevention is relatively simple, and ultimately quite boring’: the overhype of wearables (Raconteur)
Dear Katie Hopkins, research shows that losing weight won’t make you happy (Metro)
How many people are hungry in London? (Londonist)
A Dry January guide to London’s booze-free venues (Londonist)
2012
Diffusing the time bomb: why joint pain and stiffness are affecting more and more of us (Raconteur)
What affects my cardiovascular risk? (Raconteur)
Elsewhere journal.