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About Counselling
The good news is… counse lling may benefit anyone. Each of us has issues past or present, which surface from time to time. The counselling process helps us explore these issues in a non-judgemental and open relationship, with experience of being understood and accepted for who we are.
It is my belief that as people increasingly meet and know themselves in relationship with others, they become more self-aware. If you choose counselling, I will therefore not offer you my advice, but work with you so you may discover for yourself a greater self-awareness and understanding. Perhaps you are thinking at this point that all you want is to be free of this…confusion, sadness, anger, anxiety, pain, etc……so what has self-awareness got to do with this? The counselling process, which takes place within a genuine and therapeutic relationship, creates self-awareness which enables you to discover the existence of new choices about how you live, aspects of your life that you did not realise before. In addition, it enables you to work through matters from the past that still affect you. This allows you to make changes to your life, both at the speed, and in the ways, you choose.
In counselling you will experience empathy and a non-judgemental relationship in which you may
- Take time for yourself
- Explore issues, gain insight
- Express/release emotion
- Find resolution
- Evaluate, take stock, gain clarity
- Discover yourself
- Release personal resources
- Discover new choices and ways forward
I offer counselling on a weekly basis, in 50 minute sessions. I will have an initial meeting with you to understand your situation and hopes for counselling, and to establish how we feel about working together. Often an initial series of 6 weekly sessions is agreed on, with the opportunity for further sessions after review. There is the option for counselling to carry on for months or even years; this depends on the nature and depth of the issues present. Counselling which takes place over longer periods of time and involves deeper issues can also be referred to as psychotherapy. As each client is an individual, so is the character and duration of that person’s counselling experience.
I will walk with you on your journey, for a while, all the time recognising that at some point, our paths will diverge. It is that period of companionship on the journey that has profoundly and positively influenced many people who have chosen counselling as a way forward. |
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