Achelois Musings.
A Therapy Blog.

Wendy Patetson

Silly Season or Joyful Exercises. Exams shouldn't cost your mental health.

In the coming weeks and months across the UK young people with be facing the annual challenge of exams; Mocks, SATS, GCSE, or A Levels to...

Wendy Patetson

Are We Creating and Perpetuating Anxiety?

Pathologizing the Perfectly Normal. Should We Instead Embrace and Harness the Power of the Fizz? I love working with children and young...

Wendy Patetson

Oh you can't hypnotise me, or can you?

"Oh I can't be hypnotised, I don't go under, I have tried before and it never works"... Whilst I acknowledge that there may be those who...

Wendy Patetson

My Professional Meanderings. From Health to Hypnotherapy

The first time I was ever introduced to the word vacillation, I was reading the fabulous Mary Wesley’s The Vacillations of Poppy Carew....