AI therapy apps are cheap, instant and always available, but the evidence of harm is mounting. A human therapist sets out what therapy really is, why an AI cannot provide it, and where to look if cost is the obstacle.

Why do we go on hoping for love from a parent who could not give it, while also still furious at how we were treated? A look at why longing and anger persist side by side, and how therapy can help.

Always blaming yourself, or feeling you don't deserve to be loved? The Scottish psychoanalyst Ronald Fairbairn called it the Burden of Badness: how children come to blame themselves for their parents' failings, and how therapy can help you put that burden down.

Walling off an old emotional wound is exhausting, lonely and, sooner or later, fails. Why some hurtful remarks can still get through and how therapy can help you heal inside.

Basic principles for therapists working with trans and gender expansive clients: listen, park your assumptions, believe your client and explore their life with them - and know the real differences between affirmative therapy and conversion therapy.

Anxiety can hijack the nervous system before you have a chance to think. The Hot Cross Bun model from CBT shows how thoughts, emotions, physical feelings and behaviours feed one another - and how you can step in to break the cycle.