How can counselling help?
As with any relationship, the experience is dependent on what you bring and what you can put into sessions too, here are some typical topics and changes you might be able to make
Stress and anxiety
Reducing levels of anxiety and increasing resilience to stress through changes in life, understanding triggers and using different techniques.
Bereavement support
Feeling more support at a time of grief or loss e.g. death of a loved one or pet, or loss through divorce, a child leaving home, redundancy or major changes in life circumstances.
Feeling emotions
Learning how to understand your own sensitivities and accept your vulnerability, with this you can experience all ranges of emotions from joy to the inevitable difficult emotions in life, in acceptance.
Men’s health
Becoming more emotionally available, being aware of anger, and moving from self-criticism to self-kindness.
Menopause
Peri-menopause can creep up on you, understanding the impact of loss of sleep, a loss of identity and navigating changes to your body and mind throughout your menopause.
Self-esteem and self-worth
Increasing both, so you can rely less on others opinions and live by your own values and on your own terms.
Relationships
Understanding yours and setting stronger relational boundaries to improve relationships.
Healing
Making peace with your past, finding a way forward, be it forgiveness, acceptance or discovering a way that works for you.
Patterns of behaviour
Understand how patterns developed in childhood might be impacting you and your relationships today.
How does counselling work?
All our lives are filled with ups and downs. We can often work through problems ourselves, or with the help of family and friends.
Sometimes though, it can all just seem a bit too much to handle, and we perhaps feel unsure what to do, where to turn. We can feel lost or overwhelmed and this is where talking with a counsellor can be helpful.
Rather than carrying the weight of our emotions in silence, having someone who can listen to our thoughts, feelings and worries, who is not directly involved, can be very beneficial. Building a trusting relationship in a confidential setting, with a regular time to talk can help us understand ourselves better.
Counselling is about helping you find your own answers and work your own way through things. I believe that we are the experts on ourselves, but that sometimes we get stuck and we need some support to find out what we need, where to go next, or to see a way through, by really listening to you and helping you to look at things differently.