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Reflections on 2024: How My Work Evolved This Year
How my email counselling courses have developed in 2024, as well as featuring on 2 podcasts and becoming a supervisor.
Chloe Foster
5 min read


What is the disinhibition effect?
Disinhibition is the ability to relax and no longer feel shy to open up about true feelings. Email counselling is the most powerful when it
Chloe Foster
2 min read


Why boundaries matter in email counselling
When counsellors ask me about email counselling one of their biggest worries is boundaries. With no clock to go by you can end up in choppy
Chloe Foster
2 min read


My personal experience of email counselling
Back in 2017 I decided to give email counselling a go. In the beginning I wasn’t sure if it would work. I had so many questions … Would I
Chloe Foster
2 min read


Bisexual vs. pansexual
Bisexuality and pansexuality. What do these words mean? Are they same? Why it matters. Learn the myths and why there is so much confusion.
Chloe Foster
4 min read

My Year - Reflections of 2023
Chloe's reflections of 2023 and a sneak peek at plans for 2024 for email counselling training.
Chloe Foster
8 min read


My Year - Reflections of 2022
Are you curious and want to learn more about me, and my year?
- what I've been up to
- why I do what I do
- sneak peek at plans for 2023
Chloe Foster
6 min read


Do LGBTQ Labels Matter?
Labels give us the vocabulary to discuss oppression, they help us to discuss power structures which is what enables inequality to exist.
Chloe Foster
3 min read

Polyamory - What is it?
Polyamory means more than the simple media messages of having multiple partners and lots of sex. Polyamory is a subset of ethical or consens
Chloe Foster
3 min read


I passed my NCS quality check
As a counsellor and trainer, I’m so committed to helping fellow counsellors build confidence and knowledge working with LGBTQ clients so we
Chloe Foster
3 min read


Suicide in the counselling room
LGBTQ people are, sadly, statistically at higher risk of suicide.
Did you know?
46% of trans people had suicidal thoughts in the last year
Chloe Foster
2 min read


2020 - My reflections
In the counselling world - in March 2020 - Covid restrictions forced counselling to move online overnight. This was a strange and incredibly
Chloe Foster
4 min read

Are you cisgender?
When I first started running LGBTQ awareness workshops for counsellors a few years ago it was very common for almost the whole room full of
Chloe Foster
3 min read

Coming Out Day – do we need it?
When working with clients who are thinking about disclosing who they are, I find that many find the concept of “inviting in” very helpful in
Chloe Foster
3 min read


Suicidal ideation in LGBTQ clients
My boss used to say to me that I was the only youth worker who had so many suicidal clients. I wondered why. Was I doing something wrong? No
Chloe Foster
3 min read
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