Counselling

Counselling is the process that occurs when a client and counsellor meet together in order to explore difficulties that the client is experiencing.  This may include you, your family, your relationships and provides the space to explore stressful or emotional issues for the client.  Counselling is the act of helping the client to see things more clearly, possibly from a different view-point. This can enable the client to focus on emotions, perceptions and behaviours, with a goal of facilitating positive change.  Counselling is a relationship of trust.  Confidentiality is paramount to successful counselling.  Professional counsellors will usually explain their policy on confidentiality, they may, however, be required by law to disclose information if they believe that there is a risk to life.

 Counselling Can be

You

  • Personal Issues
  • Grief and Loss
  • Anxiety and Depression
  • Seperation
  • Anger Management
  • Self Esteem
  • Addiction Issues
  • Life Direction

Your Family

  • Togetherness as a family
  • Communication
  • Respect and Trust
  • Seperated
  • Parenting
  • Step Family Issues
  • Youth at Risk
  • Parenting Tools
  • Teenage Issues

Your Relationships

  • Communication Skills
  • Intimacy and Trust
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Financial Differences
  • Raising Children Together
  • Differences in Values
  • Differences in Values and Choices
  • Sexual Relationships
  • Affairs/Infidelity

Counselling is Not:

  • Giving advice.
  • Judgemental.
  • Attempting to sort out the problems of the client.
  • Expecting or encouraging a client to behave in a way in which the counsellor may have behaved when confronted with a similar problem in their own life.
  • Getting emotionally involved with the client.
  • Looking at a client’s problems from your own perspective, based on your own value system.