Therapeutic counselling offers a way of working through personal difficulties and stress to help you live a more rewarding and satisfying life.
By providing an opportunity to talk confidentially and explore these difficulties, it can help you gain a new perspective on your situation, explore options for change and see a way forward. Therapeutic counselling can be highly effective in relieving tensions and inner conflicts by improving your emotional and mental well-being.
Some of the issues our clients use counselling for include:
Counselling involves a number of regular sessions each lasting about 50 minutes. Generally a course of six sessions is suggested although it could vary from 2 to 10 depending on your initial assessment.
One of the key things your counsellor will do is to listen without judging you, giving you the freedom to express your feelings and emotions. Their role is also to help you to clarify these thoughts, giving you greater awareness of where you are in the present so you can identify how best to move forward and bring about change. In supporting you they’ll seek to help you to gain more control over your life, feel less overwhelmed by problems and establish the best choices to lead you where you want to be.
Counselling draws on different theories to address different issues. Our therapist usually practices a Person-Centred, humanistic approach. However, recognising that everyone is unique, they will draw on other therapeutic approaches including psychodynamic, cognitive behaviour therapy and mindfulness, depending on what’s best for you.
The Person-Centred approach offers a confidential, non-judgemental, caring environment in which sensitive and personal issues can be explored, with a belief that each person…
…Is unique and has the inner ability to reach their true potential
…Deserves respect and is able to choose their own direction in life
…Is the only person to know themselves fully