This blog is dedicated to my first partner Mark, who died aged 29 only a year after we met. One of the things he left behind with me was his love of lighthouses.

In this blog I am going to write a bit about my own therapy journey, which began at secondary school aged 11 when I went to the school counsellor about the homophobic bullying I was experiencing.

Loneliness can be a universal experience and no matter the privileges that we live with or the background we come from, the feeling of being lonely can affect any of us at any time in our lives…