What is counselling?
Therapeutic counselling provides a safe and confidential space to discuss your issues and concerns with a trained professional. Your therapist will help you explore your thoughts, feelings, and behaviours, enabling you to gain a deeper understanding of yourself and others. A counsellor’s role is not to offer opinions, advice, diagnoses, or prescriptions. Instead, they will support you in finding your own solutions, whether that involves making positive changes in your life or learning how to cope with your problems and challenges.
There are few opportunities where you have dedicated time and space to focus entirely on yourself as an individual.
Therapy can help you uncover the root cause of your suffering, make sense of your emotions, and understand yourself on a deeper level. It equips you with better tools, resources, and strategies to improve your well-being.
Why seek counselling?
Counselling Therapy is suited to anyone going through a difficult time or suffering with emotional problems. It is proven it be effective in the treatment of stress, anxiety, depression and other related issues. Seeking counselling is a proactive step towards improving your mental and emotional health.
Seeking counselling is a proactive step towards improved mental and emotional health, it can be transformative for many issues, including:
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Mental Health: Support for anxiety, depression, and other conditions.
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Personal Growth: Enhances self-understanding and development.
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Stress Management: Offers techniques to handle stress effectively.
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Trauma and Loss: Provides a safe space to heal from difficult experiences.
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Relationship Improvement: Enhances communication and resolves conflicts.
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Behavioural Changes: Supports overcoming addictions and managing anger.
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Life Transitions: Helps navigate major changes smoothly.
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Self-Esteem Building: Develops a healthier self-image.
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Mental Clarity: Overall, counselling can contribute to a greater sense of well-being, balance, and fulfilment in life.
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Enhancing Well-being: Overall, counselling can contribute to a greater sense of well-being, balance, and fulfilment in life.
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Fears and Phobias: Can help people to confront their fears and phobias through techniques such as CBT.
"I realize that if I were stable and steady and static, I would be living death. So I accept confusion and uncertainty and fear and emotional highs and lows because they are the price I willingly pay for a flowing, perplexing, exciting life."
Rogers, C., 1980. A Way of Being. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, p.89
What is integrated therapy?
Integrative counselling draws on techniques from different types of therapy to tailor an approach specifically for you.
An integrative counsellor believes there isn’t just one therapeutic approach that can help a client in all situations. Instead, they take into account you as an individual and your circumstances, and use elements of different approaches to help you explore and cope with your problems.
Every Integrated Counsellor carries their own personalised toolkit.
Here is a list of the types of therapy that I incorporate in my practice. The use of these therapies will depend on the specific needs of the client.
"We think we listen, but very rarely do we listen with real understanding, true empathy. Yet listening, of this very special kind, is one of the most potent forces for change that I know."
Rogers, C., 1980. A Way of Being. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, p.116