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Deflective Practice

Reflections and insights from a Psychologist navigating a change in direction
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From Interventions to Influencer? A Psychologist's perspective on Brand Deals.
Over the last year, I decided to "get into fitness" (as you do in your 30s). Run clubs, HYROX, and half-marathons seem to fill my friends' Instagram feeds as they navigate our new generation's version of adulting. Somehow, I got the run club bug, and the next thing I knew, I experienced visible changes and weight loss. Then, not long after that, I was on a call with a leading health and beauty brand in the UK discussing my participation in their next campaign. Dubai did it! Y

Dr Fleary
5 days ago2 min read


The Successes and Struggles of Self-employment
Never in my life did I think I would find myself turning to self-employment two years into qualifying. In Educational Psychology, we have a term called “Emotionally Based School Avoidance” aka EBSA, which can describe students who are often absent from school or avoid classes for a variety of emotional reasons, including anxiety, home life and school issues that serve as “push or pull” factors that either push the student away from the school environment or pull (i.e. encoura

Dr Fleary
Dec 29, 20243 min read
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