Counselling is a talking therapy that helps people find ways to deal with emotional issues. 

 

It doesn’t ‘fix’ you or your problems but it does help you to learn about yourself and enables you to make any changes that you choose to make.

 

In it’s simplest form, Counselling is a process where you (the client) spend 50 minutes a week with me (the Counsellor).   During these 50 minutes you can talk about anything that is troubling you and I will listen.   I will listen to what you say, what your body language tells me and what your silences tell me.   I will guide and support you to move to a happier place in your life.

 

There is enormous power in being listened to by someone who makes no judgement, accepts you as you are and holds a space for you. Someone who is not involved in your life outside the counselling room. It is a confidential process between you and your Counsellor.

 

Counselling provides a safe space to explore thoughts, feelings and experiences and to learn how to manage your emotions constructively.   As humans we all experience emotions.   Sometimes they can take over, sometimes they can be locked away.  Counselling helps you to understand your own emotions, where they come from, why they overwhelm you or why you can’t feel them at all. ​It is a process that helps you to make sense of your own emotions.   I have witnessed many extraordinary moments in the counselling room where clients have said something out loud and only then realised what they were thinking or feeling.   

 

Counselling is empowering and I believe it can be transformative.