About Counselling and Psychotherapy
What is Counselling?
There are times when we are faced with a difficulty or crisis in our life. At such a time, it is not easy to stand back and clearly see the way forward for ourselves.
Counselling and psychotherapy provide you with a safe and confidential space in which to reflect on your issues, and explore your difficulties with the help of a professional therapist within a trusting relationship.
Sessions are 50 minutes and held weekly. Counselling may last for a few sessions or they may continue for a longer period. This depends on your needs.
The therapist does not offer advice, but engages actively with you to explore your issues. This exploration helps to clarify with you what you want from your life, so you can make your own choices, and give direction to your life. It is therefore an empowering process.
What Conditions Can it Help?
People may come for a specific reason, be it relationship difficulties, anxiety or depression, loss or bereavement. Or they may be experiencing panic attacks, or feelings of being marginalised, isolated, bullied at work. Or too much stress in life or work. Or they may be experiencing lack of confidence, feel an inability to assert themselves with others. Or they may be looking to give up smoking, or weight loss among others. However, whatever the initial reason for seeking help, looking at any one aspect of the self, opens up the enquiry to the whole of the self. The emphasis is not on curing, rather it is on healing. This means that we look at life itself, and our relationship to it. Such understanding through enquiry with a skilled professional brings about change at a deep level, rather than just getting rid of some problem.
What Benefits can be Expected?
Such an exploration has the potential for very significant changes in the way we begin to relate to ourselves, our world and others. We empower ourselves through being in touch with who we are, for then we begin to see who we may become.
