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How Does Counselling Help?
Counselling can help people better understand their emotions, their experience of self and others and patterns in relationships. If relationships or difficulties with anger or depression are affecting you, you may find my relationship counselling, anger management, anxiety counselling and counselling for depression page helpful.
In this section you’ll find many helpful articles on how Counselling helps with specific challenges.
If I’ve missed a topic which you’d find helpful to further your understanding, please don’t hesitate to let me know here and I’ll add it asap.
The Myth Of Having To Be Unwell for Therapy...
We'd all be forgiven for thinking that therapy is only for when you're feeling down, or unwell... and that's a valid point of view... but it's also not the only one. And as it happens, it isn't my point of view. Time and time again I've used personal therapy to challenge a sticking point in my life experience where I've felt discomfort or frustration, and always come out of therapy in just a handful of sessions with a means to enjoy my life even more.
What Does Therapy | Counselling Cost? What Is It Worth?
Forgetting whatever the financial cost might be for a moment, let's just take a look at what Therapy is worth... because for most of us, the answer to that question will look completely different! Is it worth coming to Therapy? My short answer would be "yes"... haha, but I'm a Counsellor right? So I'll also offer with the caveat that you really only get out of it what you put in to it.
Therapy - Considering The End We Start From!
For some people the idea of starting therapy is daunting. Sometimes because it can feel like carrying the expectation that things are going to have to change, or very likely that you would like them to! And in most of our experience in life, that means learning something brand new... aka... hard work!
You and me? We're in a therapeutic relationship together!
It can be quite jarring to hear words like "you're the expert on yourself", which whilst, yes, I believe wholly, it also sort of begs the question "well, what do I need a Counsellor for then?" When you decide to come for therapy, you kinda want an expert to help you, am I right?
Self Help Theory in books is fine, but...
Theory gets us somewhere! And all those amazing and often beautiful self-help work-books are amazing at getting us to open up... and then somehow, it sort of peters out, am I right? The danger is to start thinking you can't be understood, or you can't understand yourself, or you're too complicated, or... dare I say it... too complex?
Can a Counsellor or Therapist Read My Mind?
You might have heard that we can! And I guess that's something of a concern, so let's set the record straight.... Sure, it might seem at times like Counsellors are mind-readers - capable of amazing feats of deduction not unlike famous detectives like Sherlock Holmes. But it's not at all that mysterious, or even exciting!
Taking the first step.
If you're wondering if Counselling is right for you, we can discuss that together.
"It's often what we already know, but simply can't see, that releases us!"
- James