Counselling is the provision of a safe and confidential environment where you can talk about your feelings and struggles without being judged or criticised. It is a place where you and your counsellor journey together with the purpose of enabling you to find your answers.
It is a place to deal with immediate and major problems such as separation, bereavement, relationship difficulties, depression, family relationships, experience of abuse, anxiety and stress.
It is also a time to explore your inner self, to heighten your awareness of why you are how you are; to gain insight to your emotions, understand yourself and in doing so engage in a fuller and richer life.
For couples, counselling provides a time and space to communicate with each other. Couples often find the presence of a counsellor can assist them in speaking what feels risky or difficult. It can provide a means of learning how to communicate better and can help in rediscovering one another. It can be a time to reflect on the shared journey and to reassess what needs to happen in order to move forward, either together or separately. Good communication is often lacking or marginalized in many relationships and counselling offers the opportunity to change that.
Counselling is also for people who want to clear their minds of thoughts, feelings and behaviours which may be affecting their lives unfavourably on a more subtle and less obvious basis.