Counselling

Counselling offers you the opportunity to talk in a private setting about feelings and issues that you are encountering in your life. Often the reasons you wish to attend counselling can be difficult or upsetting, and it can be very helpful to find a safe place to explore them more fully. While friends and family can offer an invaluable support during challenging periods in your life, a counsellor is a trained professional, able to bring their listening skills, experience and therapeutic theory to the counselling room.

Some people choose to come to counselling because of a specific incident, difficulty or issue. For others, it may be more a feeling of dissatisfaction with life or a lack of direction or purpose that makes them consider counselling. Whatever leads you to seek therapy, we can explore together whether counselling can be of use to you.

My training is in the person centred approach to counselling; this puts you, the client, at the centre of the work we do together. I will offer you a therapeutic relationship where you will be met with warmth, honesty and a genuine commitment to understanding you. My role is not to judge you, tell you what to do or give you advice. I believe that you are the ‘expert’ in your own life and I trust that in working together, at your pace, we can gain access to your own internal resources.

Working in this way can help give you the freedom to see things more clearly, to gain new perspectives and to develop a deeper self-awareness and understanding. This provides an opening to make the choices or changes which are right for you.