Validating Me
I recently attended a two-day Practitioner Skills’ Programme in London, titled “iCARER, Validating Me” – on “understanding and enabling therapeutic interaction with people experiencing dementia.” It was facilitated by Julia…
Write Away! Expressive Writing as a Healing Tool
Waiting to see an oncologist this morning (happily, not as a client but as a counsellor) this morning, I came across this article by Dr Karen Baikie, a clinical psychologist…
Massage as a Meeting Point
I came equipped for my evening shift in the Palliative Care unit on Friday with a jar of foot balm! I wanted to offer foot and hand massage as an opener,…
Massage and end of life
Found this when wandering through some of my files and can’t recall how I found it; maybe by googling ‘massage’ and ‘research’. Below is just the first couple of paras, but it…