What is counselling?

"and the day came when the risk it took to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom" - Anais Nin

What does counselling offer and who is it for?

Counselling offers a safe space where you can talk things through, feel listened to and understood. No issues are too small, whatever you need to talk about, if it’s important to you it’s important to me. Sometimes the smallest of issues can be the key to your goals.

Counselling and psychotherapy is available for people who feel dissatisfied with how they feel and want to talk things through, gain insight, awareness and  understanding of how to make positive choices and feel good about themselves and life around them.

Counselling can help if:-

• You are feeling stuck and not sure what to do
• You have recently been bereaved, or experienced a loss of some kind
• A past event is niggling away at you
• You are feeling stressed or anxious
• Poor self image, low self esteem, or lacking in confidence
• You want to make significant life changes
• Maybe you use alcohol to self medicate and make those unpleasant feelings go away.
• You have been diagnosed with depression
• You have a sense of loss of direction.
• A relationship feels unfulfilling
• You are going through a divorce or separation
• Feeling unsettled, or uncertain about your sexual identity

BUT MOST OF ALL YOU JUST WANT TO FEEL THAT YOU CAN HAVE SPACE TO THINK OUT LOUD, FEEL HEARD & LISTENED TO AND TALK THINGS THROUGH IN A CONFIDENTIAL AND TRUSTED ENVIRONMENT.

" DEPRESSION LIVES IN THE PAST, ANXIETY LIVES IN THE FUTURE, HAPPINESS AND CONTENTMENT LIVES IN THE HERE AND NOW"

Is Counselling For You

"Appreciate yourself and honour your soul"

Demystifying counselling and psychotherapy

By talking things over and making sense of life experiences individuals and couples can learn to understand themselves and make the changes you want in your life.

Counselling and psychotherapy help you to process: What you do and why you do it. Through therapy, you can revisit repeating patterns, break cycles of behaviour that are no longer helpful to you and live your life in control and empowered.

Counselling and psychotherapy is a process which can help you to identify the “if’s, maybe’s, could be’s ” reduce the feelings of “being out of control” and the symptoms of anxiety and guilt, leaving you feeling positive, free of these negative feelings and ready to embrace your life. Remember we can not recreate the " what if’s," they have not even happened yet.

Through the therapeutic relationship, you can unpick difficulties that feel stuck and free yourself to do something different. Sometimes we feel upset, or experience feeling down, or a low mood and struggle to untangle the “whys? and hows?” we feel so uncomfortable and unsettled.

Therapy offers you an opportunity to improve your mind and mood and, by untangling those struggles and piecing it all together, you can form a more positive quality of life and create an understanding of your unique process.

" DEPRESSION LIVES IN THE PAST, ANXIETY LIVES IN THE FUTURE, HAPPINESS AND CONTENTMENT LIVES IN THE HERE AND NOW"