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Therapy has a proven ability to improve mood, restore clarity and usher in calm. Our team of highly skilled and experienced therapists is on hand right now to help you with issues including anxiety, relationships and working life.
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Reasons to be Hopeful

An honest and accessible guide to finding light in the darkest of times In a world that isn’t short of darkness, there can be few more urgent priorities…
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How to Overcome Your Childhood

A guide to understanding, and liberating ourselves from, our past To an extraordinary and humbling extent, who we are as adults is determined by events that happened to…
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Love is less an emotion than a skill: one we must work at if we wish to keep it alive. We offer a range of tools to help you not only find love, but maintain and deepen it over a lifetime.

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Dating Cards

A set of 52 question cards to spark insightful and playful encounters Great dates are made up of great conversations: ones where we find out more about one…
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Connect

A card game to foster connection and closeness We tend to chat all the time with our partners, but often not about what really counts – the sort…
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How to Think More Effectively

A guide to greater productivity, insight and creativity We know that our minds are capable of great things because, every now and then, they come out with a…
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Teamwork Game

Exercises to build better team dynamics In order to work well together, people need more than just technical skills; they need to get to know and understand each…
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Calm

A guide to developing the art of finding serenity by understanding the sources of our anxiety and frustrations Nowadays almost all of us wish we could be calmer;…
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The Calm Workbook

A therapeutic and consoling workbook with exercises to soothe anxiety and create a state of calm Most of us long to be a little calmer: too many of…
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