What makes executive psychotherapy different from psychotherapy with the general population? What different approaches are useful or necessary for executive psychotherapy? To answer those questions it is essential to consider how executives differ from others seeking psychotherapy. Executives spend most of their working lives leading and managing others. Generally, executives have advanced people skills, extraordinary levels of […]
If you have a problem that is impairing your performance, if you are a leader or manager, if you live in the capital, then four words may matter to you: Executive Psychotherapy in London. Do executives who live in London need more psychotherapy than leaders or managers living elsewhere? Is there something about London that […]
Pressure, pressure, pressure. Most executives relate to that word; it may be your daily existence. But why should pressure lead to mental health problems? What are the common causes of mental imbalance in executives? Here are just a few of the causes. Subjugation of self When you need “me time” and you don’t get it, […]
Resistance to change. Executives with problems they cannot solve, but which others have solved, may be afflicted by resistance to change. All over the world executives complain that resistance to change is a major problem they face when trying to improve their organisations. When we see resistance to change in others it seems obstructive and self-defeating, […]
Sleep deprivation has a hugely negative impact on executive mental health. What starts off as a short-term problem, for many people, quickly becomes a deteriorating vicious cycle. Numerous studies have shown that most adults, 60-70%, do not have enough sleep to perform well. Sleep deprivation, even by a relatively small amount (25%) has a cumulative […]
Each year a small number of people seek help for psychological problems and that help is unsuccessful. The person seeks another psychotherapist or counseller or psychologist. The same outcome follows. Eventually the person goes for a brain scan. It reveals minor damage, and that damage explains the problems for which the person sought therapy. By […]
Is it a myth? Do happy executives exist? Surely the nature of executive and professional jobs makes unhappiness inevitable! For some, those outside of a rare group, the happiness elite, yes, living unhappy lives SEEMS inevitable. Is it? Happiness is the one thing we all want, and every executive or professional wants to be happy, […]
Lawyers have terrible mental health compared to most other professionals. Just how bad is it? Research has been conducted in various countries: typically, lawyers are found to be 3-4 times more likely to suffer depression than non-lawyers. Sadly it get worse: some studies have shown that by the time they graduate, 40% of law students […]
When, for GPs and other physicians, daily work decisions can easily kill or save lives, handling stress is an essential skill. Sadly, many of the people who spend their lives helping others do not themselves fare well in the stress, physical or mental health stakes. Physicians are nearly twice as likely to commit suicide as […]
Few executives can have avoided hearing: “Only change never changes.” Yet every day, all over the world, there are executive dismissals for resistance to change When you think about it, resisting change seems to be very strange behaviour. We read this on a computer screen, that proudly displays a change. Executives all over the world were fired […]
