Appiah Counselling Podcast

This episode defines what counselling is designed to do beyond symptom relief or problem solving. It explains the core purpose of counselling, how it differs from everyday support or advice, and why its focus on awareness and attention can feel indirect at first.

This episode explains the core mechanisms through which counselling produces change. It looks at attention, repetition, containment, emotional tolerance, and why counselling works by altering how experience is met rather than by fixing problems directly.

This episode clarifies the boundaries of counselling by explaining what it is not designed to do. It addresses common misconceptions such as advice giving, reassurance, problem solving, and dependency, and explains why understanding these limits is essential for counselling to be effective.

Counselling can feel emotionally risky even in calm or early sessions. This episode explores why therapy disrupts emotional protection, how attention and containment change, and why that sense of risk often appears before counselling feels helpful.

Counselling often feels uncomfortable in the early stages, even when people are motivated to engage. This episode explores why awkwardness, silence, and uncertainty are common at the start of therapy, and why these experiences are not signs that counselling is failing.

Many people begin counselling with unspoken expectations about how it should feel and what it should deliver. In this episode, we look at the most common misunderstandings people bring into therapy, why those expectations often lead to disappointment, and what counselling is actually designed to change. This episode focuses on realism, emotional tolerance, and how progress in counselling often loo...

Counselling is often misunderstood. Many people enter therapy with expectations shaped by films, social media, or well-meaning advice from others, only to feel confused or disappointed by what actually happens in the room. This episode provides a clear and grounded explanation of what counselling really is, without jargon or exaggeration. In this episode, we explore the true purpose of counselling...

Emotional numbness is often misunderstood as a lack of feeling, emotional failure, or disconnection from self. In reality, numbness is a meaningful psychological response that develops for a reason. In this episode of Everyday Counselling, we explore what emotional numbness actually is, why it occurs, and what it may be communicating about your internal experience. This episode explains how numbne...

Many people enter counselling with unclear or unrealistic expectations shaped by second hand experiences, cultural myths, or media portrayals. When these expectations are not met, therapy is often dismissed as ineffective before the process has had time to work. In this episode of Everyday Counselling, we clarify what counselling actually is, what it is not, and why misunderstanding the process le...

Talking Therapy is a short form podcast offering clear explanations of counselling, therapy, and emotional wellbeing. In this trailer, you will hear what the podcast is about, who it is for, and what to expect from future episodes. The series explores how counselling works, addresses common myths, and offers calm, professional insight into emotional and psychological processes, whether or not some...