How can person-centred counselling help?
Counselling offers an opportunity to explore problems, thoughts and feelings confidentially in a non-directive, non-judgmental, safe and supportive environment. Being able to express and work through issues with a trained professional could help you to understand yourself better and empower you to find your own way forward.
What is counselling all about?Counselling takes place when a counsellor sees a client in a private and confidential setting to explore a difficulty the client is having This may be distress they are experiencing, dissatisfaction with life, or loss of a sense of direction and purpose.
Counselling is a way of enabling choice or change, or of reducing confusion. It does not involve giving advice or directing a client to take a particular course of action.
In the counselling sessions the client can explore various aspects of their life and feelings, talking about them freely and openly.
The counsellor may help the client to examine in detail the behaviour or situation which is proving troublesome and to find an area where it would be possible to initiate some change as a starting point. The counsellor may help the client to look at the options open to them and help them to decide the best for them.
The trust between client and counsellor is crucial to the success of counselling, so I treat all information disclosed to me as confidential, with a few exceptions required by law and stated in the counselling contract.
Counselling is a safe place to be and talk about the issues that are important to you.
What is the philosophy behind the approach?Person-centred approach to counselling is based on the belief that each one of us is a unique individual, that nobody can know us better then we know ourselves, that we all have a potential and our very own resources to rely on in times of need.
