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LGBTQ + Mental Health Blog

Sharing regular reflections, articles, videos, and insights exploring LGBTQ+ mental health, relationships, shame, identity, trauma, recovery, and emotional wellbeing through an affirming, trauma informed, and psychologically grounded lens shaped by both professional training and lived experience.

LGBTQ+ Anxiety And The Threat System

Anxiety can feel exhausting and overwhelming, especially when it starts affecting everyday things like relationships, work, confidence, sleep, or even leaving the house. Over time, many people begin feeling stuck in survival mode, constantly overthinking, scanning for danger, or waiting for something to go wrong.

Fear Of Intimacy: Why Do I Push People Away When They Get Close?

Do you find yourself craving connection, only to pull away when relationships start to feel emotionally close? This article explores why many LGBTQ+ people struggle with intimacy, where these patterns come from, and how therapy can help create safer, healthier relationships.

Toxic Family Dynamics And Boundaries

Do you have someone in your life who constantly leaves you feeling emotionally drained? Maybe no matter how much you help, support, compromise, or try to keep the peace, it never seems to be enough. Many people find themselves stuck in exhausting family or friendship...

Decoding Mixed Signals: When Words And Actions Don’t Match

When somebody says they don’t want a relationship but continues to call, message and spend time with you, it can leave you feeling confused, hopeful and emotionally stuck. In this article, I explore why mixed signals can feel so powerful, why many LGBTQ+ people struggle with ambiguity in relationships, and how to recognise when hope is keeping us invested in something that isn’t changing.

Why LGBTQ+ People sometimes Miss Romantic Signals

Many LGBTQ+ people grow up without the same opportunities to openly explore attraction, dating, flirting, and relationships that heterosexual people are often able to experience more freely from a young age. For a lot of queer people, attraction became something...

People Pleasing On Holiday: Why Some People Feel Responsible For Everyone Else

In this video, I explore emotional responsibility, boundaries, people pleasing, and the pressure many people feel to keep everyone else happy. I also talk about why protecting your own peace and enjoyment doesn’t make you selfish. If you often feel emotionally responsible for other people or struggle to relax without monitoring everyone around you, I’d really encourage you to watch the video.

Emotional Denial: Why Do I Struggle To Feel My Feelings?

Many people know they’re anxious, overwhelmed, exhausted, or unhappy, yet struggle to identify what they’re actually feeling. Emotional denial isn’t usually a refusal to feel. More often, it’s a survival strategy that once helped us cope with difficult experiences.

Why Self Care Isn’t Selfish For LGBTQ+ People

Many people struggle with the idea of self care because somewhere along the way they learned that prioritising themselves was selfish, inconsiderate, or wrong. Over time, this can lead to people pleasing, emotional exhaustion, burnout, and constantly putting other...