About Psychotherapy & Counselling
Counselling is a talking therapy that involves a trained therapist, like myself listening to you and helping you find ways to deal with emotional issues. Counselling is a working partnership between the client and the counsellor. The counsellor must gain the clients trust and create a safe environment in which the client feels as ease and in trust to talk confidentially about the issues that are bringing them to counselling.
Having trained and qualified as an Integrative counsellor, I am able to draw on my knowledge and experience of various counselling theories in order to find the most appropriate and fitting way of working with you. My aim is to give you a safe and confidential space, to explore your thoughts and feelings without judgement. I believe you as the client are the expert in your life, not I. And therefore the foundation of my approach is a humanist framework, more specifically the person centred approach. By using this as my foundation approach, keying in on different approaches when needed, I aim to gain an understanding of your life from your perspective, not mine. By doing this I hope to be able to support you whilst you explore your emotions, understand them and process them. Additionally, guide you to through the sessions so ascertain a happier, healthier and more sustainable way to be.
What Conditions Can it Help?
As a counsellor, I am experienced in helping clients with concerns in the following areas:
- Stress
- Childhood issues
- Relationship issues
- Panic attacks
- Anxiety
- Bereavement
- Redundancy
- Depression
- Addiction
- Grief
- Mental health disorders
- Emotional abuse
- Sexual abuse
- Physical abuse
- Anger management
What Benefits can be Expected?
As a counsellor I can help you gain a better understanding of your feelings and thought processes, and find your own solutions to problems, I cannot make these issues go away over night, but over time, I can help you process these emotions and ease any conflicting or troubling emotions you may be carrying.
It can take a number of sessions before you start to see progress, but you should gradually start to feel better with the help and support from myself.
