Contributed to this funny article in the Telegraph about Christmas with the fam by Jenny Tucker .. https://archive.ph/LC7s1
Category Archives: Media
Tips for Sibling Harmony Over Christmas
The team at the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) invited me to contribute to another website article. This one focuses on managing sibling relationships over the Christmas period. However, I’d say it applies to any time families are together.
Hope you enjoy it!
New Guardian bit with Annalisa Barbieri
Annalisa called me up a few weeks ago to work on another email from a reader. This one was a bit different, about a work conflict and also needed input from other specialists which was fun.
See what you think .. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/aug/16/my-ex-boss-bullied-me-and-stole-my-ideas-how-do-i-copeve-on
How to create positive parent and child relationships
I’m fortunate to work with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy‘s media team from time to time, and they recently asked me to comment for an article on their website about parenting and mental health. It’s always nice to be recognised by your professional association for the work you do.
You can read the article here .. https://www.bacp.co.uk/news/news-from-bacp/2024/25-january-how-to-create-positive-parent-and-child-relationships/
Love doing these Guardian items
I had the opportunity to work with Annalisa Barbieri again on a reader’s issue. I love the variety of subjects that come up and this time it was a reader writing in about something going on between her husband and his family.
Have a look and see what you think .. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/feb/11/why-is-my-mother-in-law-still-so-angry-about-her-exs-affair
In the Guardian today
I enjoyed working on another piece in the Guardian with Annalisa Barbieri. She’s so easy to talk to and we had a good long conversation as always which results in just a few well chosen words.
In The Guardian
I love when an email comes through from the BACP media department offering me a chance to talk about my favourite subject, and the one that came through at the start of July was especially welcome.
Since long before I started training with Relate the first section of the Saturday Guardian I’ve turned to has been the Guardian Family supplement, and my favourite bit of that is always Annalisa Barbieri’s advice in response to letters sent in by readers.
So I was super pleased to be asked if I’d speak with Annalisa about a letter she’d received from a reader.
I really enjoyed looking at Annalisa’s reader’s letter and talking it over with her on the phone. We also had a chance to talk about her time doing the column, and how she manages the push back she sometimes gets from readers online.
Do have a look at the piece, and let me know what you think. Maybe it might stimulate some ideas about how you might approach a similar situation in your life?
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/aug/02/husband-humour-turnoff-annalisa-barbieri
The Woes of Sibling Roles
I’m a media ambassador for the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and I was lucky enough to be asked last year to contribute to an article for Psychologies magazine that was published in the January 2019 edition.
It was a great experience, I chatted with the writer for about an hour about research, theory and my thoughts on how sibling relationships are developed and maintained. We talked about how birth order can play a part in this, as well as family patterns and personalities.
She told me a bit about something she wanted to shift in her relationship with her siblings and I suggested some ideas of things to think about that she went away and tried. A week later she told me she’d been surprised at the shift that had happened and that she was planning to keep going with the changes she was making.
You can read the article here, I hope you enjoy it!
Birth Trauma Awareness Week 2018
Birth Trauma Awareness Week starts today until July 8 2018.
I have a personal and professional commitment to helping people recognise and manage traumatic birth experiences having been through a traumatic birth.
I often ask my clients about their birthing experiences and have heard their surprise at being asked. A common response is ‘Well you just get on with it don’t you ..’ Partners say ‘Well she went through it, I just watched’. In reality the trauma of emergency intervention or seeing the person you love in peril and feeling powerless to help can stay with you and cause flashbacks, ongoing panic or depression.’
Just talking things through afterwards and in a safe space can be hugely helpful for men and women alike. It’s also worth considering ante natal counselling for future pregnancies.
The Birth Trauma Association says on its website: “Each year, up to 20,000 women and their birth partners go through a traumatic birth experience and suffer the often long-lasting impact this has on their physical and mental health, their ability to bond with their baby and their relationships with their family and friends.
Many women and their partners who have been through birth trauma are left feeling isolated, unable to share their experiences and talk openly about what has happened to them. “
Last year, Birth Trauma Awareness Week brought the subject of postnatal post-traumatic stress disorder out into the open and gained widespread media attention. The Association will be holding Twitter chats each evening from Monday July 2 to Friday July 6 on subjects relating to birth trauma as well as launching new videos of women talking powerfully about their traumatic births.
Other resurces
Unfold Your Wings . Hope, Support and awareness for Birth Trauma and Perinatal PTSD
Sands . We operate throughout the UK, supporting anyone affected by the death of a baby, working to improve the care bereaved parents receive, and promoting research to reduce the loss of babies’ lives.
Press and Media
Armele Philpotts is a psychotherapist in private practice, specialising in working online on relationships, trauma, and where the two intersect. She is an Accredited Member and media spokesperson for the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and an Accredited EMDR Practitioner with the EMDR Association UK.
She has appeared in Psychologies Magazine, on the BBC World Service, BBC Radio 5 Live, Love Sport Radio, The Guardian, Evening Standard and the Huffington Post.
Her website is https://apcounselling.wordpress.com/
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Armele P. MBACP(Accred) . Psychotherapeutic Counselling & EMDR Therapy 