sarahfishburnroberApr 152 minAt home in the house of the livingMy friend Claire has just celebrated the beginning of Passover with her family. She shared photos of their seder, of drinking from the Kiddush cup and eatin...
sarahfishburnroberApr 72 minThe Story of AchillesWe all have our own Achilles’ heel, by which I mean our own specific point of weakness, that spot that when pressed, hurts more than any other. In Greek myt...
sarahfishburnroberApr 52 minFinding a light of meaning‘Little girl in the forest’ is a painting by the Cuban artist Eduardo Abela. It speaks to me of our collective sense of confusion and uncertainty in this ti...
sarahfishburnroberMar 222 minNeeds in the time of CoronaThis week, we counsellors have been doing three things: addressing our clients’ heightened anxiety in the face of the Corona virus, processing our own conce...
sarahfishburnroberFeb 172 minCBT - and the hunger to be more seriousWhen I look at Rembrandt’s self-portrait of 1669, I allow myself to believe that this was a man who lived a life of great psychological depth, and who knew h...
sarahfishburnroberJan 4, 20192 minYou need not be alone.Enquiries about starting counselling surge around the Christmas and New Year period. This is often attributed to the fact that Christmas generally involves p...
sarahfishburnroberSep 17, 20182 minDissolving our petrified opinionsArtist Emma Middleton and a group of care leavers created this art installation currently on display at the Foundling Museum in London. The young people’s sc...
sarahfishburnroberSep 17, 20182 minThe Sounds of SilenceThe pressure to keep moving and stop thinking (and we could add feeling, sensing, perceiving and so on) is a very real one, and in this respect I wonder if t...
sarahfishburnroberJul 2, 20182 minCoughing in the darkPerhaps one of the hardest things for clients to tolerate is the feeling that therapy isn’t getting them anywhere. They complain of a sense of ‘stuckness’ an...
sarahfishburnroberJun 18, 20182 minThe Pursuit of 'Mineness.'This image, by my photographer husband Simon Roberts, is a composite of old Italian postcards that were sent to relatives in the UK by British holidaymakers,...
sarahfishburnroberJun 4, 20182 minThe Gift of UncertaintyClients come to therapy looking for answers to their misery and confusion. They want to know why they’re depressed, for example, and then they want to know w...
sarahfishburnroberMay 13, 20182 minThe Juiciest TomatoThis screen print was created in 1964, by Sister Corita Kent, an American nun who produced dazzling Pop Art, much to the displeasure of Los Angeles’ archbish...
sarahfishburnroberApr 25, 20182 minGetting in the boat, togetherHokusai’s famous painting, The Great Wave, has symbolized for me this week how very difficult it is for most people to enter counselling. If you look closely...
sarahfishburnroberApr 25, 20182 minThe soil we are sown in“Addiction runs in the family.” “She’s just like her father.” “It’s just the way I am.” These, and many other similar statements, are frequently heard in the...
sarahfishburnroberApr 25, 20181 minChasing butterfliesThis painting by Gainsborough depicts his daughters trying to catch a butterfly. They probably won’t manage it; the butterfly is pretty but elusive, close by...
sarahfishburnroberApr 25, 20181 minThrough a glass, darklyThose local to where I practice in Hove will know that a large fire broke out a few days ago and for a brief hour or so, transformed our usually zesty seafro...
sarahfishburnroberApr 25, 20181 minTherapy as individuationAn image that reminded me of some of Jung’s ideas about individuation. There is my ‘self’ - a smooth, grey pebble separate from all the other pebbles and gra...
