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Essex-based institute expands pioneering mental health training into India
The BWRT Institute has expanded its ground-breaking mental health therapy training into India. Brain Working Recursive Therapy (BWRT®) was created in 2011 by Essex-based Terence Watts, a psychotherapist and Fellow with the Royal Society of Medicine. BWRT is based in neuroscience and is designed to…
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Ex-police officer who suffered burnout goes back to help colleagues
An ex-police officer who retrained as a psychotherapist after suffering with burnout, PTSD and cancer is now helping former colleagues with their mental health. Warwickshire-based Hannah Bailey has teamed up with Warwickshire Police to support officers with their health and wellbeing. Following her…
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Social media addiction: new therapy helps people overcome it
Pioneering therapy based in neuroscience has been launched to help people overcome ‘social media addiction’. For most people, scrolling through their social media posts is fine and a perfectly normal way to pass time with no ill effects. But for some however social media has become a wholly…
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How to overcome stress and anxiety
Can anxiety, phobias and other mental health issues truly be cured? Yes, but only by harnessing a 600-million-year-old part of our brain, says renowned Essex therapist Terence Watts. Anxiety levels are at an all-time high. There’s so much going on in the world and we're exhausted after two years…
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Milton Keynes housing group offers ground-breaking therapy to support employees’ mental health
Housing association staff struggling with mental health issues are to be offered pioneering therapy after it transformed the life of an employee who experienced a breakdown during the pandemic. Milton Keynes-based Grand Union Housing Group has introduced brainworking recursive therapy (BWRT) to…
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Essex couple who lost everything in boating accident ready to do it all again thanks to pioneering therapy
Debs Mitchell, aged 54, from Hullbridge, Essex, and her partner Mark Morrow, aged 58 It was going to be the adventure of a lifetime. The boat was our home and we’d been living on it, moored in Essex, for seven months while Mark was doing it up after his last trip. He’s a carpenter by trade and…
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Hertfordshire psychotherapist is on a mission to improve kids’ mental health
With the recent ‘stark warnings’ that we’re failing our children by not prioritising their mental health, a Hertfordshire based psychotherapist has created a course to build resilience in kids. Lisa Jury from Bishop’s Stortford is a psychotherapist and former nurse who works with clients…
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Essex-based research society donates £50,000 to charity
Terence & Julie Watts, founders of the British BrainWorking Research Society (BBRS), have donated £50,000 to three UK charities. The money has been split equally between YoungMinds, SSAFA, the Armed Forces charity and Parenting Mental Health. The donation was made available following the closure of…
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Pioneering therapy may be the answer to mental health ticking time bomb sparked by COVID-19
A pioneering therapy revolutionising the world of psychology in South Africa could be the answer to the UK’s ticking time bomb of mental illness sparked by the pandemic. Brain Working Recursive Therapy (BWRT) is the go-to therapy for many psychologists, psychiatrists and psychotherapists working…
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Essex therapist teams up with local homeless charity to improve staff wellbeing
As anxiety levels soar under UK Covid-19 restrictions, an Essex therapist has teamed up with a local homeless charity to tackle trauma-related mental health using a pioneering technique. Claire Gaskin BSc., a psychotherapist with over 25 years’ experience is providing one-to-one therapy and group…
