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Welcome to the Alex Golding Therapy Blog

Soulful insights alongside practical tools to help you live the life you live.

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Whether you're already deep in your own inner work, or simply curious where to begin, this therapy blog offers insights, guidance, and honest commentary on mental wellbeing, meaningful change, and the ongoing journey of self-discovery. Grounded in Psychosynthesis, humanistic psychology, and leading modalities in psychotherapy - shaped by thinkers such as Carl Rogers, Irvin Yalom, Jung, Gabor Maté, and Brené Brown - these entries explore trauma, intimacy, spiritual awakening, and the everyday texture of inner transformation.

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Behind This Blog

I'm Alex Golding, a BACP-registered psychosynthesis counsellor working in Farringdon and Streatham and online. Forty years of Buddhist practice, a career in the arts, and years of running men's and community groups sit behind my clinical training. I work with the whole of your story, not just the part that brought you here. More about me →

 

Latest Therapy Blog Posts

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5 Ways to Practice Conscious Kindness Day to Day

  Blog · Self-Compassion 5 Ways to Practice Conscious Kindness Day to Day Small, real practices - not another thing to get right, just a gentler way to be with yourself. Conscious Kindness isn’t a technique you master once and move on from - it’s a practice, something you return to daily, often imperfectly. If […]

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Starting Therapy for the First Time

For anyone hesitant about starting therapy - why it's harder than it should be, what real strength actually looks like, and what to expect when you're ready.

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Emotional Resilience and Ego Strength: How Much Is Enough?

What emotional resilience actually means across six schools of therapy - and the honest markers of having genuinely enough of it.

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Psychosynthesis Therapy for Anxiety & the Inner Critic

Anxiety often carries a deeper message - shame, vulnerability, an inner critic working overtime - met here through a psychosynthesis lens, not just managed away.

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Spiritual Awakening or Breakdown? How to Tell the Difference

Spiritual awakening or breakdown - how to tell the difference & why it matters. Psychosynthesis perspectives grounded in real client experience.

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Men and Emotions: Why It’s Time to Talk

Grounded, confidential therapy for anxiety, shame, anger and disconnection - a space to be fully human without holding it all together.

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What Actually Happens in a Psychosynthesis Session

A gentle guide to psychosynthesis therapy London - what it actually is, how it differs from other approaches, and what to expect in sessions.

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Depression Counselling in London | Effective Therapy & Support

Depression counselling that explores what your low mood may be communicating, not just how to manage it. Holistic, relational, transpersonal therapy - in Farringdon or online - to help you reconnect with vitality and purpose.

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Therapy for Creatives & Artists in London

For creatives, artists and freelancers navigating self-doubt, financial uncertainty and burnout - from a therapist who's also a working musician.