Between Sessions

Between Sessions is a space for curiosity, reflection, and clinical wanderings, where I share the ideas, questions, and insights that clients and everyday life inspire. It’s part blog, part thinking-out-loud space, where psychology meets real life and the messy, fascinating ways our minds work.

It’s also home to our ‘Ask a Therapist’ answers, a place where you can read anonymised questions from people just like you, and hear a therapist wade in with practical, thoughtful guidance. (You can submit your own question through the shop here)

Whether you’re here to explore mental health, find inspiration, or simply enjoy the perspective of a practising psychotherapist, Between Sessions is your invitation to pause, reflect, and wander with curiosity.

Ask A Therapist - Brutiful Parenting

How can I be fully present with my children? I feel so guilty now they've gone back to school after the christmas holidays. They spent time on their devices and not with me and whereas I enjoyed the peace and quiet, I feel like I should have been making memories with them or playing with them more. Christmas was pretty full-on and now the return to routine means that the evenings and weekends feel so full of work and commitments and I feel guilty that I don't spend enough tim

Lynsey Skinner

3 days ago4 min read

This Is Totally Sound

A therapist's journey into why vibration belongs in therapy (and why it’s not woo) For most of my career, I’ve lived at the intersection of the clinical and the creative. My work has always moved between worlds; theatre and psychotherapy, science and story, trauma and transformation. I’ve spent a decade helping people regulate, reconnect, and rebuild through EMDR, Dramatherapy, somatic tools, nervous system education, and creative processes rooted in my physical theatre train

Lynsey Skinner

6 days ago4 min read

On Doing The New Year 'Right'*

*Spoiler alert - you already are. Celebrating the arrival of 2026 with vibrant colors and festive cheer. There’s something about a new year that can make even the most grounded among us feel quietly on edge. As if we’re meant to arrive on the 1st of January refreshed, motivated, emotionally organised, and holding a clear vision for the next twelve months. As if everyone else got a memo about how to do the new year properly. So let’s say this clearly, early on. There is no ri

Lynsey Skinner

Jan 53 min read

On Seasonal Pressure: The Art of Getting Through

Let’s start with the truth, not the tinsel Father Christmas rocks the holidays with a boombox beside a vibrant pink Christmas tree against a bold blue backdrop. I’ll start with some honesty. I am limping to the end of the year. I have had a low-grade, never-ending cold for weeks, the kind that doesn’t quite knock you off your feet but also refuses to leave. There is a growing stack of presents in the corner of the room that still need wrapping. I keep meaning to do it and kee

Lynsey Skinner

Dec 17, 20256 min read

On Loneliness

Loneliness is one of those quiet words that lands with a thud. Heavy. Tender. Often wrapped in shame. Many people tell me they feel lonely and then almost immediately apologise for it, as though loneliness is something they should have outgrown, fixed, or transcended by now. As though feeling lonely means they’ve failed in some personal way. But loneliness isn’t a personal deficiency. It’s not a weakness of character or a flaw in resilience. Loneliness is a signal. It’s your

Lynsey Skinner

Dec 8, 20256 min read

Ask A Therapist - Grief Tending

I’d love to ask a question about grief. I’m entering a period of my life where I know there will be a lot of loss, and I’ve been hearing people talk about “grief tending.” I’m wondering whether it’s possible to prepare for grief by learning about approaches like this or whether I'm kidding myself, and grief will hurt just as much no matter what. I’d really appreciate hearing a therapist’s perspective. Dear Anonymous, Thank you for your question. The way you describe entering

Lynsey Skinner

Nov 29, 20255 min read