Dr Natalie Raiher, Chartered Psychologist and Clinic Director
If you spend your days dragging yourself through a fog of exhaustion, only to find your brain suddenly firing on all cylinders the second your head hits the pillow, you are not alone. The “tired but wired” phenomenon is a modern epidemic. This is a particular […]
Dr Natalie Raiher, Chartered Psychologist and Clinic Director
We are encouraged our whole lives to be thoughtful, to train our minds to be creative problem-solvers, inventive imagineers and compassionate friends and partners. Our minds are wonderful things. They can work to send rockets to space, see an atom, or imagine the suffering and joy […]
Dr Natalie Raiher, Chartered Psychologist and Clinic Director
Fear, ironically enough, is a feeling many of us are afraid of. Understandably so, as it is designed to be so unpleasant that we do something about it. It’s inherently adaptive: if we weren’t motivated by its discomfort, we wouldn’t necessarily take action to […]
Dr Natalie Raiher, Chartered Psychologist and Clinic Director
One of the most common and most pernicious difficulties I work with is perfectionism. This is quite a vanilla term for a really rigid, and often brutal, internal world that carves life up into right and wrong, success or failure and one which constantly […]
Dr Natalie Raiher, Chartered Psychologist and Clinic Director Our minds, the dense packaging of neurons and experience, are absolutely miraculous. There is no doubt of that. The same part of us that can smell and taste, jump out of the way of traffic before we even know it’s there, remember umpteen passwords, ride a […]
Dr Natalie Raiher, Chartered Psychologist and Clinic Director
Many people who come to see me arrive exhausted. And it’s not from the lack of a good night’s sleep, or from running a marathon. It’s from the constant rigid and unrelentingly high standards they impose […]
Dr Natalie Raiher, Chartered Psychologist and Clinic Director
Things are looking more normal after the slow tumult of the last eighteen months: people are back in shops, restaurants are open and James Bond is back in the cinemas but things are certainly different from how they were before. We cannot un-experience the […]
Dr Natalie Raiher, Chartered Psychologist and Clinic Director
Right now, we’re being besieged by information on how to cope. Or rather, how best to cope and be at our best while coping. We’re being told how to minimize anxiety, improve mood, keep families busy, learn to craft, exercise on sofas and cultivate […]
Dr Natalie Raiher, Chartered Psychologist and Clinic Director
These are unprecedented times and everyone is experiencing an upsurge in fear, anxiety and uncertainty about the day ahead, let alone the longer-term future. I wanted to share with you as many practical tools and skills that I can to help you manage any symptoms of […]
Dr Natalie Raiher, Chartered Psychologist and Clinic Director
Many of us harbour lists of punitive rules for ourselves. We’re not always aware of these insidious despots but are rather more aware of a pernicious sense of constantly failing in a world that vampirishly demands of us. This feedback loop makes for exhausted […]
