Counselling
What is Counselling?
Counselling offers you the opportunity to explore issues which may be causing you concern or distress. These issues may have bothered you for some time or may be the result of a recent event, crisis, or loss.
The counselling sessions provide a warm, safe space in which you can explore emotional problems, personal issues or other challenging aspects in life, talking about them freely and openly in a way that may not be possible with friends or family. Feelings such as unhappiness, anger, anxiety, grief, and embarrassment can become very intense and counselling offers an opportunity to explore them, with the aim of making them easier to understand.
What does a Counselling Session Involve?
Counselling sessions last one hour. The counsellor will listen attentively and patiently trying to perceive the difficulties from your point of view. In this way the counsellor can help you to see things more clearly, with the possibility of a different perspective. Counselling can enable a greater sense of purpose and engagement in life with the possibility of change.
What can counselling help with?
> Stress
> Panic attacks
> Anxiety
> Relationship difficulties (especially divorce and separations)
> Bereavement
> Emotional turmoil (especially during times of ill health)
> Feelings of hopelessness
> Depression
What method of counselling do you use?
We use an object centred approach to counselling which is derived from the Buddhist Psychotherapy model of the mind. You do not have to be a Buddhist to be counselled in this way, it is open to anyone of any faith.
