In this podcast Alice, Clinical Director of Crossroads Psychology (https://crossroadspsychology.co.uk/), explores how you can use
scientifically proven psychological techniques to improve your life.
From challenging unhelpful thoughts your mind is giving you, to opening up to the guidance of your emotions;
From identifying your personal values, to taking controlled steps towards your life goals.
From navigating crisis, reducing stress and overwhelm, to busting myths, trends and prejudices..
Everything has already been studied in the field of psychology and specific psychological techniques have been proven to really work.
So why trying blindly, with hit and miss, following self elected gurus?
When everything you need to know is already available for you to learn and use right now thanks to science?
The life you want to live it's one podcast away!
That podcast is: Mental Chats.
Happy Listening.
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Relationships take balance.
Letting people grow closer through trust and consistent actions, while protecting your needs with healthy boundaries.
In this episode Alice explores common relationship mistakes:
from rushing intimacy or shutting people out to forgiving repeated hurt,
giving too much or too little,
and cutting people off too quickly.
She also shares how difficult conversations and breaking points can reveal whether a relationship can grow stronger or needs more distance.
To know more visit Crossroads Psychology (https://crossroadspsychology.co.uk/) website
Questions to mentalchats@crossroadspsychology.co.uk
For more information and FREE resources visit https://crossroadspsychology.co.uk/trainings (https://crossroadspsychology.co.uk/trainings)
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7 May 2026
Episode 10 - The Secret Ingredient
In this episode Alice explains the single most important technique you can learn, practice and master to take your personal growth journey to the next level.
You read the books, you listened to the theory on how to improve your wellbeing and your life from the inside-out...
Now it is time to put it all to practice!
And you will NEED this technique to succeed.
Happy listening.
For any questions, email mentalchats@crossroadspsychology.co.uk
Our FREE resources can be accessed on: https://crossroadspsychology.co.uk/trainings
For more information and FREE resources visit https://crossroadspsychology.co.uk/trainings (https://crossroadspsychology.co.uk/trainings)
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17 Mar 2026
Episode 9 - The Future of Mental Health Research
This is a special episode for the Podcasthon charity initiative.
In the episode Alice interview Craig, digital content creator for the charity MQ Mental Health Research
who funds ground-breaking mental health research to understand, prevent and treat mental health difficulties.
Mental health issues affect 1 in 4 people in the UK at any given time. This means that eventually one in a lifetime we will all experience mental health difficulties. However the funding for mental health research are minuscules compare to physical health.
Much help is needed to charities like MQ who dedicate its work to saving people lives, by preventing and treating mental health.
You can donate, run, skydive… anything you like to support this amazing charity.
donate: https://www.mqmentalhealth.org/donate/ (https://www.mqmentalhealth.org/donate/)
take on a challenge: https://www.mqmentalhealth.org/take-on-a-challenge/ (https://www.mqmentalhealth.org/take-on-a-challenge/)
And if you have experienced mental health difficulties, you can also help shape future research and be part of the revolution!!
https://www.mqmentalhealth.org/who-we-are/lived-experience-research-network/ (https://www.mqmentalhealth.org/who-we-are/lived-experience-research-network/)
For more information about Podcathon visit: @Podcasthon_en
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14 Jan 2026
Episode 8 - Who you gonna call?
Did you know not all therapists are created equal?
From psychologists to life coaches, the landscape can be overwhelming!
In our latest podcast, Alice unpacks the roles of different mental health professionals so that you can make informed choices.
For more info about the difference between counselling and psychotherapy click HERE (https://www.brightonandhovepsychotherapy.com/blog/the-difference-between-counselling-and-psychotherapy/#:~:text=There%20are%20two%20main%20professional,a%20counsellor%20or%20a%20psychotherapist)
For more information about the pathway to psychiatry, click HERE (https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/become-a-psychiatrist)
And as always, you can access our free resources HERE (https://crossroadspsychology.co.uk/trainings)
Bye!
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4 Jul 2025
Episode 7 - Are we all Chemically Imbalanced?
Professor Joanna Moncrieff discusses the chemical imbalance theory of mental distress, medication choices, and resources for informed decisions in an interview with Alice.
14 Apr 2025
Episode 6 - Your Mind Creates Your Reality
The way we interpret reality determines how we feel and how we act in life and the response from the world.
So by changing our interpretation of reality, we can change how we fee and what we do, and therefore the response of the environment.
In this episode Alice explains what the Confirmation Bias is and describes a few techniques that you can use to challenge thoughts when unhelpful.
To know more about the techniques explained in this episode, please have a look at the Living a Meaningful and Successful Life program: https://crossroadspsychology.co.uk/meaningful-successful-life-online-course
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You can access the FREE resources here: https://crossroadspsychology.co.uk/crossroads-psychology-free-resources
and to know more about the Confirmation Bias, please read on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
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9 Feb 2025
Episode 5 - The Ring of Fear
In this episode Alice explains why fear is not the enemy and what to do to overcome it.
You do not want to overcome the Ring of Fear just for the sake of it, you want to overcome it when that particular fear is a limitation to living the life you want to live.
The only way to overcome fear is to go through it and emerge on the other side, expanding your comfort zone in the process.
Stop going around in circles inside your comfort zone, make friend with fear and start moving in the direction of what you value in life.
Free resources to do so: https://crossroadspsychology.co.uk/crossroads-psychology-free-resources
Send questions to: mentalchats@crossroadspsychology.co.uk
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20 Dec 2024
Episode 4- Know Your Why!
Alice Johnson, a certified therapist, guides listeners in identifying their internal values to discover direction, motivation, and purpose in life.
14 Nov 2024
Episode 3 - The 5 elements to Living a Meaningful and Successful Life
In this episode Alice explain the 5 essential steps you need to take to create the life you want to live.
If you have any questions on the concept explained, please email us at MentalChats@crossroadspsychology.co.uk and we will do our best to answer in one of the next episodes.
In this episode, Alice also talks about the Hero's Journey. To know more about the Hero's Journey visit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%27s_journey
To have a look at our Living a Meaningful and Successful Life programme visit: https://crossroadspsychology.co.uk/meaningful-successful-life-online-course
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5 Oct 2024
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5 Oct 2024
Episode 2- Function of Emotions
In this episode Alice explains why our emotions are healthy helpful responses and what the function of Fear, Anger, Sadness and Joy is.
Any questions, please emails us at mentalchats@crossroadspsychology.co.uk
To access our FREE resources visit: https://crossroadspsychology.co.uk/crossroads-psychology-online-courses
For more detailed information on the scientific research about primary emotions visit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_accounts_of_emotion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_accounts_of_emotion)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_classification (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_classification)
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12 Sept 2024
Episode 1- What is this all about?
Welcome to the first episode of the Mental Chats podcast!
In this episode Alice will explain the aims for this podcast and will introduce the theoretical models she uses to help people improve their lives in her daily work as a Clinical Director at Crossroads Psychology.
These are: CBT, Mindfulness and ACT, models that you will soon learn, and that you can apply to your life, to change it, improve it, or perfect it.
You can find the Crossroads Psychology's FREE resources mentioned at https://crossroadspsychology.co.uk/crossroads-psychology-free-resources
If you like this podcast, please leave us a review and share it, share it, share it with friends and family.
This will help us to reach more people and improve more lives.
If you have any questions, topics that you would like Alice to cover, or you would like to be featured on the podcast, please send an email to mentalchats@crossroadspsychology.co.uk
References:
Evidence of effectiveness of CBT
https://babcp.com/What-is-CBT/Cognitive-Behavioural-Therapy-Whats-the-Evidence (https://babcp.com/What-is-CBT/Cognitive-Behavioural-Therapy-Whats-the-Evidence)
The efficacy of CBT, a review of meta-analyses
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3584580/ (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3584580/)
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5.0 / 5
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Podcast Authority Score: 32 / 100
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