Appiah Counselling Podcast

This episode explores how boundaries operate within everyday relationships, focusing on closeness, distance, and emotional responsibility. It explains how unclear boundaries often show up as tension or resentment and how counselling helps make these patterns visible.

This episode explores boundaries as they show up in daily life through energy, closeness, and responsibility. It explains how boundaries support emotional stability and why difficulties with boundaries often appear as exhaustion or overwhelm rather than conflict.

This episode explores moments when emotional regulation becomes harder to access, using everyday examples to show why these experiences are part of being human. It reframes breakdown as information about limits and capacity rather than personal failure.

This episode explores how emotional regulation operates through everyday routines, habits, and rhythms. It uses familiar examples to show how people manage emotions day to day without pathologising or oversimplifying the process.

This episode explains emotional regulation in clear, everyday terms, focusing on how emotions are managed, processed, and recovered from in ordinary life. It reframes regulation as a flexible process rather than emotional control.

This episode explores how attachment patterns change under stress and why people may respond differently in relationships when pressure increases. It explains these shifts as protective responses rather than fixed traits, using everyday examples listeners can recognise.

This episode explores how attachment patterns appear in adult relationships through communication, reassurance, conflict, and expectations. It uses everyday examples to help listeners recognise familiar dynamics without labels or diagnosis.

This episode introduces attachment as a system that shapes how people manage closeness and distance in everyday relationships. It explains attachment in clear, relatable terms without labels or diagnoses, helping listeners recognise familiar relational patterns.

This episode explores how anxiety is closely tied to uncertainty and why not knowing activates anxious patterns. It explains how people respond to uncertainty in everyday life and how this understanding reframes anxiety as a process rather than a flaw.

This episode explores how anxiety shows up through ordinary behaviours like checking, rehearsing, avoiding, and staying busy. It helps listeners recognise familiar patterns and understand what these behaviours are trying to manage.

This episode explains anxiety as a system rather than a single feeling, using everyday examples to show how it operates in ordinary life. It offers a clear and accessible way of understanding anxiety without pathologising it.

This episode clarifies the roles of counsellors, psychotherapists, and psychologists, then pivots toward everyday psychological concepts people recognise in their own lives. It sets the foundation for exploring ideas like anxiety and attachment in practical, relatable ways.

This episode explains the difference between counselling and psychology, using everyday examples to clarify how these fields overlap and where they differ. It helps listeners think more clearly about roles, training, and what kind of support they may be seeking.

This episode explores the difference between counselling and psychotherapy, looking at how the terms developed, how they are used today, and why the distinction is often less clear than people expect. It helps listeners think beyond labels and focus on how therapeutic work is actually delivered.

This episode compares major counselling approaches, including CBT, person centred, psychodynamic, and integrative models. It helps listeners think about differences in focus, structure, and style, and invites reflection on personal preferences without judgement.

This episode explains what integrative counselling means and how therapists combine ideas from different approaches in a coherent way. It explores how integration draws on relationship, structure, and understanding of experience to support flexible and thoughtful practice.

This episode introduces psychodynamic counselling and explains how it focuses on patterns, meaning, and the influence of past experiences. It uses everyday metaphors to compare psychodynamic counselling with other approaches and place it clearly within the wider therapy landscape.

This episode explains the core ideas of person centred counselling, including its emphasis on the therapeutic relationship and the work of Carl Rogers. It explores how this approach understands change and how it differs from more structured therapeutic models.

This episode explains what Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is, focusing on how it understands the relationship between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It places CBT within the wider counselling landscape and prepares listeners for comparison with other therapeutic approaches.

This episode explains how counselling unfolds across time, from early orientation through ongoing work and later integration. It explores how sessions connect, how progress develops gradually, and why counselling is best understood as a structured process rather than a single conversation.

This episode explains the client’s role in counselling and how participation shapes the therapeutic process. It explores engagement, communication, pacing, and how responsibility is shared between client and therapist within different counselling approaches.

This episode explains the professional role of the therapist in counselling. It explores responsibility, structure, ethical boundaries, and how different counselling approaches shape the therapist’s work, providing a clear and accessible overview for listeners.

This episode explains what typically happens in a counselling session, including structure, timing, boundaries, and how sessions unfold over time. It provides a clear, realistic overview for anyone wanting to understand what counselling looks like in practice.

This episode explains when counselling is unlikely to be helpful and why timing matters. It explores readiness, expectations, crisis states, avoidance of action, and practical instability, helping listeners understand when counselling works best and when other support is more appropriate.

This episode explains the most common ways counselling is misused, including repetition, reassurance seeking, over explanation, emotional discharge, avoidance, and validation without examination. It clarifies why these patterns prevent progress and how counselling works differently when used as intended.