What is Counselling?
Counselling is about talking to someone who understands the issues you are going through and helps you to understand. Having a safe, confidential space to share your worries, fears and grief can be such a relief. You may find the process of counselling a bit challenging as you share your issues but as your therapist supports you through the journey, you will begin to feel better. As human beings we avoid hurtful and difficult experiences, particularly in early life, by putting them out of our minds. However, they continue to exert an influence on how we live our lives and our perception of the outside world. Counselling is a process by which we can gradually come to understand more about these experiences and the effect they continue to have on our feelings and behaviour.
Usually it would take a number of sessions for you to see the difference that counselling is making, and it is important that you attend counselling sessions regularly in order to experience effective counselling impact.
Counselling can be used to treat different mental health issues such as:
Depression
Anxiety
Borderline personality disorder (BPD)
Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Bereavement
Eating disorders, such as anorexia and bulimia
Addiction
Phobias
Post-traumatic stress disorder ( PTSD)
How can counselling help?
The aim of counselling is to help you deal with issues that are causing you emotional or psychological distress. Counselling aims to help you deal with and overcome issues that are causing emotional pain or making you feel uncomfortable.
It aims to provide for you a safe and confidential space where you can explore and talk about difficult and distressing issues without feeling judged or criticised. It also aims to empower you to find insights and solutions to your problems.
Counselling can help you:
Deal with feelings of anxiety, helping you worry less about things
Manage with a bereavement or relationship breakdown
Increase your confidence and self-esteem
Develop a better understanding of other people's points of view
Deal with redundancy or work-related stress
Explore issues such as sexual identity
Explore and deal with eating disorders
Explore and deal with issues hindering you from achieving your ambitions
Explore feelings of depression or sadness, and have a more positive outlook on life
Set goals and work on the agreed goals.
Understand yourself and your problems better.
Confidentiality:
This is a very important aspect of the counselling relationship. Everything that we discuss in the counselling session is kept in the strictest confidence. As part of the requirement of BACP, each counsellor is required to have regular supervision and would need to discuss their work with a trained counselling supervisor from time to time. However, your names would not disclosed or anything that would enable you to be identified. If you are being treated by your doctor for emotional difficulties, it is important that you inform him or her about your therapist, and vice versa. As your therapist, I will maintain confidentiality however, if there is convincing evidence that you intend to harm yourself or others, I would be under ethical obligation to break confidentiality by informing your doctor, or in serious cases the police, again this would only take place with your prior knowledge.
What to expect from counselling:
In your first session you will be assessed and your will be required to fill out different questionnaires which would help ma as your therapist measure and understand your issues. In your preceding sessions, I would encourage you to express your feelings and emotions and as you talk about your issues I would be able to help you gain a better understanding of what your issues and your thought processes are as well as help you explore ways of dealing with them.
Counselling can take place:
Individually: this can face to face, a one- to- one counselling space provides the confidential environment in which new ways of resolving old conflicts can be found and change gradually achieved.
Online/Telephone Therapy:
Online counselling is just another way of providing counselling. You can choose either a Skype call (video or audio), or one of our private instant-messaging chat-rooms. Each session lasts for 50 minutes and you talk with me at a pre-arranged time, so of course you don’t need to leave your home, you don’t need to come over to a clinic, find somewhere to park and get back again. You don’t need a web cam, if you prefer not to be seen, you can be totally anonymous.
Couple Counselling:
Communication is a vital ingredient in a relationship and when missing can result to conflicts and psychological issues. I offer counselling for couples who are finding it hard to communicate with each other. Couple counselling used to be known as marriage guidance and can help you to resolve difficulties in your relationships or to make separation easier for you both.
Group Counselling:
Group counselling enables for you to hear and share your experience with likeminded people or people who may have experienced what you are going through, the group counselling space also gives you the opportunity to learn from other people’s experiences whilst I facilitate the group.
Counselling can be both long term and short term:
Long term counselling: This means that counselling can last from several weeks to several years as agreed by the client and counsellor.
Short term counselling is counselling taking place within a structured and specific time. This usually last for weeks and few months in some cases. You may be offered counselling as a single session, as short term sessions over a few weeks or months, or as a long term that lasts for several months or years.
Counselling to Young People in Schools:
What happens when a child becomes a teenager? The teenage years marks a transition in a young person's life when they change from being a child to an adult. Physically, children are getting more matured than they used to. This can also be attributed to the changes in technology and lifestyle which appears to be speeding up young peoples’ social development. This is a stage where teenagers become less dependence on the family and more exposure to the outside world. It is a move from dependence to independence. This transition process begins gradually and accelerates as the child becomes older. Having to cope with these life changes might be difficult for the young person and may cause emotional or psychological difficulties that may impact their studies. It may be difficult sometimes for young people to discuss these issues with their families without the fear of be judged or criticised.
In counselling I provide young people a safe and comfortable atmosphere to talk about these issues without being judged or criticised and help cope with these transitions and other issues in their life and academics.
Sessions:
Last for around 50 minutes, and we will usually meet once a week, at the same time and day each week, though this is also negotiable. The whole session time belongs to you, whether you choose to attend or not, and I will be present for the entire time of the session. If you arrive part way through your allotted time, you will be seen you for the remainder of the time. Your slot will not be offered to anyone else, even if you are away on holiday. If your circumstances change and the session time is no longer suitable, the therapist would endeavour to do accommodate this and offer you an alternative time.
Cancellation and Holidays:
Cancellation of an appointment with less than 24 hours’ notice, or failure to show for an appointment, will incur the full fee. Appointments missed because you are ill and you have given me 24 hours’ notice, or because you are on holiday are not charged for. I will be available for you with the exception of my holidays and occasional times when I might need to attend a training workshop or a conference. In such occasions where I would give you as much notice as possible if I am unable to make a session.In the event where I need to be absent due to unseen circumstances, I would give you as much notice as possible, and will try to offer you an alternative time.
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Counselling is about talking to someone who understands the issues you are going through and helps you to understand. Having a safe, confidential space to share your worries, fears and grief can be such a relief. You may find the process of counselling a bit challenging as you share your issues but as your therapist supports you through the journey, you will begin to feel better. As human beings we avoid hurtful and difficult experiences, particularly in early life, by putting them out of our minds. However, they continue to exert an influence on how we live our lives and our perception of the outside world. Counselling is a process by which we can gradually come to understand more about these experiences and the effect they continue to have on our feelings and behaviour.
Usually it would take a number of sessions for you to see the difference that counselling is making, and it is important that you attend counselling sessions regularly in order to experience effective counselling impact.
Counselling can be used to treat different mental health issues such as:
Depression
Anxiety
Borderline personality disorder (BPD)
Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Bereavement
Eating disorders, such as anorexia and bulimia
Addiction
Phobias
Post-traumatic stress disorder ( PTSD)
How can counselling help?
The aim of counselling is to help you deal with issues that are causing you emotional or psychological distress. Counselling aims to help you deal with and overcome issues that are causing emotional pain or making you feel uncomfortable.
It aims to provide for you a safe and confidential space where you can explore and talk about difficult and distressing issues without feeling judged or criticised. It also aims to empower you to find insights and solutions to your problems.
Counselling can help you:
Deal with feelings of anxiety, helping you worry less about things
Manage with a bereavement or relationship breakdown
Increase your confidence and self-esteem
Develop a better understanding of other people's points of view
Deal with redundancy or work-related stress
Explore issues such as sexual identity
Explore and deal with eating disorders
Explore and deal with issues hindering you from achieving your ambitions
Explore feelings of depression or sadness, and have a more positive outlook on life
Set goals and work on the agreed goals.
Understand yourself and your problems better.
Confidentiality:
This is a very important aspect of the counselling relationship. Everything that we discuss in the counselling session is kept in the strictest confidence. As part of the requirement of BACP, each counsellor is required to have regular supervision and would need to discuss their work with a trained counselling supervisor from time to time. However, your names would not disclosed or anything that would enable you to be identified. If you are being treated by your doctor for emotional difficulties, it is important that you inform him or her about your therapist, and vice versa. As your therapist, I will maintain confidentiality however, if there is convincing evidence that you intend to harm yourself or others, I would be under ethical obligation to break confidentiality by informing your doctor, or in serious cases the police, again this would only take place with your prior knowledge.
What to expect from counselling:
In your first session you will be assessed and your will be required to fill out different questionnaires which would help ma as your therapist measure and understand your issues. In your preceding sessions, I would encourage you to express your feelings and emotions and as you talk about your issues I would be able to help you gain a better understanding of what your issues and your thought processes are as well as help you explore ways of dealing with them.
Counselling can take place:
Individually: this can face to face, a one- to- one counselling space provides the confidential environment in which new ways of resolving old conflicts can be found and change gradually achieved.
Online/Telephone Therapy:
Online counselling is just another way of providing counselling. You can choose either a Skype call (video or audio), or one of our private instant-messaging chat-rooms. Each session lasts for 50 minutes and you talk with me at a pre-arranged time, so of course you don’t need to leave your home, you don’t need to come over to a clinic, find somewhere to park and get back again. You don’t need a web cam, if you prefer not to be seen, you can be totally anonymous.
Couple Counselling:
Communication is a vital ingredient in a relationship and when missing can result to conflicts and psychological issues. I offer counselling for couples who are finding it hard to communicate with each other. Couple counselling used to be known as marriage guidance and can help you to resolve difficulties in your relationships or to make separation easier for you both.
Group Counselling:
Group counselling enables for you to hear and share your experience with likeminded people or people who may have experienced what you are going through, the group counselling space also gives you the opportunity to learn from other people’s experiences whilst I facilitate the group.
Counselling can be both long term and short term:
Long term counselling: This means that counselling can last from several weeks to several years as agreed by the client and counsellor.
Short term counselling is counselling taking place within a structured and specific time. This usually last for weeks and few months in some cases. You may be offered counselling as a single session, as short term sessions over a few weeks or months, or as a long term that lasts for several months or years.
Counselling to Young People in Schools:
What happens when a child becomes a teenager? The teenage years marks a transition in a young person's life when they change from being a child to an adult. Physically, children are getting more matured than they used to. This can also be attributed to the changes in technology and lifestyle which appears to be speeding up young peoples’ social development. This is a stage where teenagers become less dependence on the family and more exposure to the outside world. It is a move from dependence to independence. This transition process begins gradually and accelerates as the child becomes older. Having to cope with these life changes might be difficult for the young person and may cause emotional or psychological difficulties that may impact their studies. It may be difficult sometimes for young people to discuss these issues with their families without the fear of be judged or criticised.
In counselling I provide young people a safe and comfortable atmosphere to talk about these issues without being judged or criticised and help cope with these transitions and other issues in their life and academics.
Sessions:
Last for around 50 minutes, and we will usually meet once a week, at the same time and day each week, though this is also negotiable. The whole session time belongs to you, whether you choose to attend or not, and I will be present for the entire time of the session. If you arrive part way through your allotted time, you will be seen you for the remainder of the time. Your slot will not be offered to anyone else, even if you are away on holiday. If your circumstances change and the session time is no longer suitable, the therapist would endeavour to do accommodate this and offer you an alternative time.
Cancellation and Holidays:
Cancellation of an appointment with less than 24 hours’ notice, or failure to show for an appointment, will incur the full fee. Appointments missed because you are ill and you have given me 24 hours’ notice, or because you are on holiday are not charged for. I will be available for you with the exception of my holidays and occasional times when I might need to attend a training workshop or a conference. In such occasions where I would give you as much notice as possible if I am unable to make a session.In the event where I need to be absent due to unseen circumstances, I would give you as much notice as possible, and will try to offer you an alternative time.
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