The British-Australian ACT therapist Russ Harris, author of the book “The Happiness Trap”, (2007), came to Helsinki this week to run a workshop on Trauma Focused ACT. ACT stands for “Acceptance and Commitment Therapy”, a process based therapy...
For many people springtime feels like the end of a long winter, with more daylight and above zero temperatures in southern Finland indicating that summer is on the way. But statistics show that this transition period, from a long, cold, dark winter to the bright light...
Recently one of our psychologists, Annabel Battersby, gained certification as an EMDR therapist from Traumaterapiakeskus. In this article she explains what EMDR therapy can offer. EMDR is a type of therapy which taps into memory processes to alleviate distress and...
I wrote an article in August 2023 about accessing affordable mental health care, and now more than ever it is relevant to re-visit this problem. Many foreign language speakers in Finland would want to access therapy in their own language or with a foreign trained...
Known in social media as Aurikatariina, Finnish professional cleaner Auri Kananen was recently invited to the Presidential Ball in Finland on 6th December 2024. She attended in a dress in her signature pink colour, complete with a dishcloth fabric purse and Scrub...
