COUNSELLING 

What is Counselling?

Counselling is a way of facilitating choice or changes or the reduction of fear or confusion.

Person Centred counselling focusses on the client being his/her own expert and the counsellor’ role is to help facilitate their healing and growth by listening with empathy, congruence, and unconditional positive regard within a safe and supportive environment.

The client will be encouraged to focus on themselves and to express their feelings, the counsellor will tell the client what they notice, hear and sense, enabling them to gain a greater understanding of themselves and discover new ways of coping with their difficulties

Frequently these feelings may become even more intense during counselling or new ones emerge, whilst this can be difficult, it can also become empowering.

The unique therapeutic relationship between the client and the counsellor is an essential part of the process and may not be like any other that the client has experienced elsewhere. The therapy I offer seeks to give you the opportunity to be listened to by someone who is a qualified person – centred practitioner with the flexibility to offer alternative approaches.

Counselling and the role of the counsellor is not to befriend or become a long-term support. But to help the client make their own choices, to make their own decisions and to be able to put into action.

All counselling sessions adhere to the National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society (NCPS) Code of Ethics, Data Protection Act (DPA & GDPR) and Equality Act.