What Is Counselling/Psychotherapy And What Benefits Can It Bring?
Counselling and psychotherapy enable you to share personal or sensitive issues with a professional, and be listened and responded to differently to how you may be in other relationships in your life. Often this experience is helpful, promoting insight, growth and change.
As a counsellor/psychotherapist, I have been trained to listen attentively to my clients, reflecting upon and exploring their concerns, whilst carefully sharing my own thoughts and observations. If you choose to work with me, I will not pass judgement on your situation, or necessarily push you towards a particular course of action. However, I may sometimes bring to light, or gently challenge, any attitudes or underlying assumptions you seem to hold - and we can explore strategies and ways forward together if you wish.
Through respecting and working with you as you are, and through maintaining confidentiality, I seek to foster an environment where you feel safe to explore your situation, feeling supported as you think about what lies ahead.
What Types Of Issues Can Counselling/Psychotherapy Help With?
People seek counselling/psychotherapy for a variety of reasons and there are many life experiences that it can help with. These include:
Relationship difficulties
Stress
Feelings of low self-esteem
Confusion over identity, career options, lifestyle choices or faith
Difficulty in coming to terms with loss or sudden change (bereavement or redundancy for example)
It can also assist people dealing with more specific psychological issues such as:
Depression
Anxiety
Trauma
Is There A Difference Between Counselling & Psychotherapy?
You may be wondering if there is a distinction between counselling and psychotherapy, or have seen the terms used interchangeably. Broadly speaking, counselling can be seen as helping an individual to address a specific issue or symptom (for example, a bereavement or particular fear) in the context of a short series of sessions. Psychotherapy, on the other hand, involves longer term exploration of one's early life experiences, relational patterns and core beliefs and values. Sometimes people attend psychotherapy for a year or more - as often it can take this amount of time to achieve the understanding and make the connections that lead to lasting change.
Counselling and psychotherapy enable you to share personal or sensitive issues with a professional, and be listened and responded to differently to how you may be in other relationships in your life. Often this experience is helpful, promoting insight, growth and change.
As a counsellor/psychotherapist, I have been trained to listen attentively to my clients, reflecting upon and exploring their concerns, whilst carefully sharing my own thoughts and observations. If you choose to work with me, I will not pass judgement on your situation, or necessarily push you towards a particular course of action. However, I may sometimes bring to light, or gently challenge, any attitudes or underlying assumptions you seem to hold - and we can explore strategies and ways forward together if you wish.
Through respecting and working with you as you are, and through maintaining confidentiality, I seek to foster an environment where you feel safe to explore your situation, feeling supported as you think about what lies ahead.
What Types Of Issues Can Counselling/Psychotherapy Help With?
People seek counselling/psychotherapy for a variety of reasons and there are many life experiences that it can help with. These include:
Relationship difficulties
Stress
Feelings of low self-esteem
Confusion over identity, career options, lifestyle choices or faith
Difficulty in coming to terms with loss or sudden change (bereavement or redundancy for example)
It can also assist people dealing with more specific psychological issues such as:
Depression
Anxiety
Trauma
Is There A Difference Between Counselling & Psychotherapy?
You may be wondering if there is a distinction between counselling and psychotherapy, or have seen the terms used interchangeably. Broadly speaking, counselling can be seen as helping an individual to address a specific issue or symptom (for example, a bereavement or particular fear) in the context of a short series of sessions. Psychotherapy, on the other hand, involves longer term exploration of one's early life experiences, relational patterns and core beliefs and values. Sometimes people attend psychotherapy for a year or more - as often it can take this amount of time to achieve the understanding and make the connections that lead to lasting change.