How Can Counselling Help?

Counselling offers you a safe, non- judgemental environment to explore the difficulty you are experiencing. How you use the sessions will depend on what you hope to achieve from coming to counselling. Counselling is built on trust and as this develops so will your confidence in using the space to your best advantage.By giving yourself the time and space to explore yourself and the situation you find yourself in you can begin to understand yourself better. The following are just a few of the benefits that people report they gain from counselling :-

•Increased self awareness

•Better quality of relationships

•Increased self- confidence.

•Better quality of life

•Help in resolving a difficulty and moving on

•Feeling heard and accepted

•Setting goals and finding meaning and direction

•Healing wounds

Counselling is not always about helping people to make changes that improve their quality of life. Sometimes it helps just having someone there to share feelings or fears. The reality is that we are all unique so everyone will use the space differently.

Is Counselling right for me?

Counselling can help you work through the sometimes complicated business of living your life. Here are some examples of issues that counselling can help with.

•Low self esteem
•Loss/bereavement
•Depression/sadness
•Anxiety/ panic attacks
•Disability
•Body image/weight issues
•Relationship problems
•Coping with change
•Childhood Issues
•Work problems
•Feeling lonely or isolated
•Anger management
•Wanting more from life.
•Sexuality issues

What ever the problem you are experiencing it is likely that you will benefit from talking it through. If after talking it appears that counselling isn’t the best form of help for you we can look at other options together.