Author Archives: Fee Williams

Going to say it now while feeling uncharacteristically open and vulnerable : A shout out to all those counselling clients putting in the work. Including myself in this – Woah, I know! Self praise! Fuck it, this is my space. It’s hard but so worth it. But my god, it’s hard. Actually it’s hard, andContinue reading “On being a client (1)”

I’m in love with these. I’m lazy and impatient, so I want to work quickly. Oil paints are lovely but with all the faff of the solvents, plus my “studio” being the spare bedroom, I’ve always tried to make acrylic paints work for me. But they dry so flipping quickly! “You’re impatient!” I hear youContinue reading “Water mixable oil paints”

I recently watched the Gloria Films with particular focus on the session with Carl Rogers. I was struck by Rogers’ emphasis on the final stage of the counselling process– the acceptant experience of feelings – particularly when he described the reduction of shame through the process; that it’s not that the client’s ‘bad’ feelings wouldContinue reading “Personal reflections: Shame”

“Person-centred theorists often use the analogy of a plant to describe our concept for growth and change. No one can make a plant grow. But if someone provides the right conditions […] it will become the best plant it can be” (Tolan 2017: p. 9).  Person-centred theory understands human development as tending towards wholeness and growth, driven byContinue reading “Person-centred theory of personality development and its approach to counselling”

I sometimes find it difficult to write anything for others to read because what I really want to write about is myself, my experiences, and that somehow feels a bit “ick”, self-indulgent, and solipsistic. So I titled this “Ick” to show you, the reader, that I see, I understand, I am with you. But itContinue reading “Ick”

‘Oh, Brenda!’ will follow the misfortunes of a hapless flamingo as she moves to town, facing the challenges of identity, fitting in, inaccurate weather forecasts, a balanced diet, and plain old angst. All with a spirit of curiosity, and a touch of clumsiness. Join Brenda and a host of human and cuddly characters on socialContinue reading “I’m creating a webcomic!”

I wrote a story for an online exhibition from Paintings in Hospitals – a  national charity dedicated to using world-class art to inspire better health for people in the UK. My story combines text, audio, and paintings from the Paintings in Hospitals collection. You can read my story here:  https://artsandculture.google.com/story/PgXhmvVfqhPEOA

The Covid-19 pandemic exposed me to the absurd. Not that I was naive to it, but it couldn’t have coalesced more for me than one morning in a Tesco café surrounded by masked faces and robots outside (I was in Milton Keynes). Sartre wrote about how everything is always normal in cafes.  During the coronavirusContinue reading “Existentialism and pigeons in a pandemic”

What is Focusing? There seems to be an increasing awareness and interest in the practice of Focusing, which Eugene Gendlin developed and published in his 1978 book, Focusing: How To Gain Direct Access To Your Body’s Knowledge. Focusing is all about finding the ‘felt sense’ of a situation. Rather than deciding what you think about aContinue reading “Focusing”