What is counselling?

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Counselling is a type of talking therapy set in a safe, calm, confidential, non-judgemental environment.  Where you have the opportunity to talk to a professional, trained counsellor sharing any issues, views, worries, concerns you may be experiencing.  Allowing you to be heard, feel valued and understood.  As you and your counsellor work together, your counsellor may provide some tools and techniques that will encourage you to explore and become aware of your life struggles and challenges.  This will enable you to self-assess and self -reflect upon your life journey so far.  You will develop the skills to identify positive coping strategies and set yourself future goals, which you will then use to work towards your fulfilment.  

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What is Pluralistic counselling?

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Pluralistic counselling involves acknowledging one approach may not suit all.  Here are some things the therapist would discuss with their unique client.

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• Their reasons for therapy.

• What they want from therapy. 

• Their goals and how they believe they could achieve these positively using self-awareness and self-reflection.

 

These techniques discussed during each session will allow you to be your true self, which will guide you to reaching your full potential along your journey to self-actualisation. 

 

What is a Psychodynamic approach?

 

The psychodynamic approach is to encourage and make the unconscious mind conscious.  This would encourage you to become aware of their impulses and motives regarding your previous and present actions.  With the counsellor supporting you as you connect with your childhood and past experiences both positive and negative would encourage you to recognise memories, triggers, issues, assumptions, difficulties and help find the root cause relating to your life challenges.  Gaining an understating of these would encourage you to become self-aware and self-reflect your journey.  Working together with your counsellor would allow you to adapt your behaviours, thoughts and feelings in healthier, positive way.

 

What is a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) approach?

 

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is an approach that encourages you to focus on how you think (your cognition), how you feel (your emotions) and how you act (your behaviour).  Along with how these are interconnected.  Hence our thoughts relate to our thinking and our actions of behaviour.  CBT helps you to look at your maladaptive core beliefs.  Encouraging you to identify Negative Automatic Thoughts (NATs) and patterns, involving your negative feelings, emotions, beliefs, assumptions and behaviours. Which would help you to identify how and why they’re connected to your triggers and behaviours.  Enabling you to feel more in control as you use healthier coping strategies, begin to self-assess, self-reflect and continue your journey in healthier ways reaching your full potential and achieving your goals.

 

CBT is short, focuses on the here and now, the therapeutic relationship, client’s commitment, goals, and continuity of tasks/homework between sessions. 

 

This approach has scientific evidence which proves it’s beneficial with not curing but treating a variety of mental health issues and can be just as effective as medication.  Including depression, anxiety, anger, chronic pain.