What You Can Expect I work with a wide range of needs as a person centred counsellor. More specifically these are some of the issues I am prepared to work with:
Addictions Bereavement and loss Depression Emotional difficulties Crisis Loss of sense of self Problems caused by violence and abuse Relationships Sexuality Work Related Stress Anxiety Family problems Improving self-esteem Confidence building Alcohol and Drugs
What are the differences between counselling and psychotherapy? Counselling usually focuses on a specific issue. It tends to be short term (1-30 sessions) depending on the individual, whereas psychotherapy involves more in-depth work than counselling and may take longer.
Psychotherapy may be more general, concerned with the person's feelings and thought processes rather than specific problems. Psychotherapy may also look at childhood abuse and provides exploration of a range of choices; how we choose to be in this world, personal and spiritual growth, and may ask the question who am I?
Counselling Services Counselling is now accepted as a form of healing alongside other techniques. It is a process whereby a trained counsellor helps you by purposeful conversation in an understanding atmosphere. The aim of counselling is to give you the opportunity to explore your concerns and feelings, discover what might be the underlying causes and to clarify ways of living more effectively and to move towards a greater sense of well-being.
It seeks to create a helping relationship in which you can express your thoughts and feelings in such a way as to clarify your own situation, to come to terms with some new experience, to see your difficulty more clearly and so to face your problems with less anxiety and tension. It helps you to find your own resources for dealing with difficult situations. Change in any form can be a problem. You may be experiencing an unwelcome change and need to discover how you can adjust to it. Alternatively, you may realise that you yourself want to make particular changes in your life and need to discover how you can bring those about. Counselling can be the opportunity to think the unthinkable and speak the unspeakable without the fear of what others might think.
You can expect a respectful, confidential service in a safe quiet environment for Counselling in Somerset.
