How It Works
Counselling provides confidential support, and can take different forms depending on your needs. Most therapy takes place in planned, regular sessions which last for around 50 minutes. How many sessions you need will depend on your circumstances, and will be agreed between us.
The first session is a chance for me to learn a little about you and what has brought you into counselling. Once we have decided we will work together, the first few sessions will be about getting to know your history, and to help me understand your life in its full context.
I am qualified in a number of approaches, and so by adapting my style to suit your needs, I can help you to achieve your goals, and find healing and purpose in all you do. Therefore, in subsequent sessions we may work in a number of different ways.
How Counselling Can Help You
Counselling can help you if you are feeling distressed by difficult events in your life, or if you have a mental health problem.
Counselling gives you time and space to work through your problems, and gain a different perspective on the issues you face.
Counselling can help you gain balance and wellbeing in your life. It can help you to think more clearly and make better decisions.
Counselling can help you feel less alone with your problems, and more able to cope in everyday life.
Counselling can help you to work out how to deal with negative thoughts and feelings, and make some positive changes.
In Couples and Family Counselling, individuals can benefit from having a trained, neutral and objective counsellor’s input.
Some issues that people seek counselling for include:
- grief and loss
- work and career issues
- stress, anxiety and depression
- life transitions - such as the birth of a new baby, separation, divorce or the death of a family member or friend
- parenting
- addiction, abuse and trauma
- low self-worth and low self-esteem