Counselling Therapy | COUNSELLING THERAPY

What is counselling?

Therapeutic counselling provides a safe and confidential space to discuss your issues and concerns with a trained professional. Your therapist will help you explore your thoughts, feelings, and behaviours, enabling you to gain a deeper understanding of yourself and others. A counsellor’s role is not to offer opinions, advice, diagnoses, or prescriptions. Instead, they will support you in finding your own solutions, whether that involves making positive changes in your life or learning how to cope with your problems and challenges.

There are few opportunities where you have dedicated time and space to focus entirely on yourself as an individual.

Therapy can help you uncover the root cause of your suffering, make sense of your emotions, and understand yourself on a deeper level. It equips you with better tools, resources, and strategies to improve your well-being.

Why seek counselling?

Counselling Therapy is suited to anyone going through a difficult time or suffering with emotional problems. It is proven it be effective in the treatment of stress, anxiety, depression and other related issues. Seeking counselling is a proactive step towards improving your mental and emotional health.

Seeking counselling is a proactive step towards improved mental and emotional health, it can be transformative for many issues, including:

Mental Health: Support for anxiety, depression, and other conditions.
Personal Growth: Enhances self-understanding and development.
Stress Management: Offers techniques to handle stress effectively.
Trauma and Loss: Provides a safe space to heal from difficult experiences.
Relationship Improvement: Enhances communication and resolves conflicts.
Behavioural Changes: Supports overcoming addictions and managing anger.
Life Transitions: Helps navigate major changes smoothly.
Self-Esteem Building: Develops a healthier self-image.
Mental Clarity: Overall, counselling can contribute to a greater sense of well-being, balance, and fulfilment in life.
Enhancing Well-being: Overall, counselling can contribute to a greater sense of well-being, balance, and fulfilment in life.
Fears and Phobias: Can help people to confront their fears and phobias through techniques such as CBT.

"I realize that if I were stable and steady and static, I would be living death. So I accept confusion and uncertainty and fear and emotional highs and lows because they are the price I willingly pay for a flowing, perplexing, exciting life."

Rogers, C., 1980. A Way of Being. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, p.89

What is integrated therapy?

Integrative counselling draws on techniques from different types of therapy to tailor an approach specifically for you.

An integrative counsellor believes there isn’t just one therapeutic approach that can help a client in all situations. Instead, they take into account you as an individual and your circumstances, and use elements of different approaches to help you explore and cope with your problems.

Every Integrated Counsellor carries their own personalised toolkit.

Here is a list of the types of therapy that I incorporate in my practice. The use of these therapies will depend on the specific needs of the client.

a plants tendency to grow towards the light

Person Centred Therapy

Person-Centred Therapy, (PCT) developed by Carl Rogers, is the basis of most modern counselling practices. It sees the client rather the counsellor as being the expert in the room. PCT emphasizes the client’s innate capacity for self-healing and growth. Rogers believed that like plants – human beings given the right conditions have a tendency towards growth and reaching their full potential. The therapist provides a supportive, non-judgmental environment through unconditional positive regard, empathy, and genuineness. This fosters a safe space for clients to explore their feelings and experiences, leading to increased self-understanding and self-worth. By empowering clients to lead their own journey, PCT helps them develop greater independence and achieve their full potential.

Mindfulness Based Therapies

Mindfulness based therapies such as guided grounding and meditation techniques have been shown to reduce mood states such as stress and anxiety as well as increasing positive emotions, improving attention, self-control and self-regulation.

Compassion Focused Therapy

Compassion Focused Therapy aims to help people who struggle with shame and self-criticism, which are often underlying factors in mental health conditions such as anxiety and depression.

Psychodynamic Therapy

This type of therapy helps to raise awareness of how childhood experiences and relationships with your parents have shaped your behaviour thoughts and feelings in the present, successful psychodynamic therapy relies on a trusting and open relationship with the therapist. Psychodynamic Therapy is developed from psychoanalysis pioneered by Freud.

Psychoeducation

This is different from my usual style of therapy – (which is normally client directed and centred around listening.) In psychoeducation the therapist takes on a more directive ‘teacher’ role. Psychoeducation helps in therapy by providing clients with information about their mental health conditions, treatment options, and coping strategies, which empowers them to better understand and manage their symptoms, make informed decisions, and actively participate in their recovery process.

Gestalt Therapy

Gestalt Therapy helps raising self-awareness in the present moment. At times there is discussion of things that have happened in the past, but the focus is on how these events affect you in the here and now. Gestalt also helps to explore your thoughts, feelings, and behaviours to increase self-awareness and resolve unfinished business. Gestalt Therapy uses a variety of techniques to help raise self awareness such as role playing and creative expression.

Russian Dolls to represent the different parts of ourselves in internal family systems,

Internal Family Systems (IFS)

Internal Family Systems (IFS) helps in therapy by enabling individuals to understand and harmonize the different “parts” or "sub-personalities" within themselves. For example we are all familiar with our ‘inner critic part’ or our angry, childish parts – IFS teaches us to better manage these ‘parts ‘by learning greater self-leadership. It helps us to better understand ourselves and our patterns of behaviour.

Transactional Analysis

Transactional Analysis (TA) helps you to understand your patterns of communication and how they can be changed to improve outcomes. It helps clients understand their behaviour, thoughts, and feelings by identifying which of the three ego states—Parent, Adult, or Child—they are operating from.

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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) helps in therapy by identifying and changing negative thought patterns and behaviours. It equips clients with practical strategies to manage and reduce symptoms of mental health conditions such as anxiety, depression, fears and phobias and promotes healthier thinking, CBT helps to improves emotional regulation and problem-solving skills.

"We think we listen, but very rarely do we listen with real understanding, true empathy. Yet listening, of this very special kind, is one of the most potent forces for change that I know."

Rogers, C., 1980. A Way of Being. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, p.116

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What is counselling?

Why seek counselling?

What is integrated therapy?

Every Integrated Counsellor carries their own personalised toolkit.

What I Specialize In

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What is counselling?

Why seek counselling?

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What is integrated therapy?

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Every Integrated Counsellor carries their own personalised toolkit.

What I Specialize In

Get in touch

Get My Monthly Mental Wellbeing Tips