How Does it Work?

Create the Right Conditions, and Make Change Happen

The kinds of changes that can be made in the course of counselling vary widely depending on what your individual goals are and the directions you wish to pursue. Counselling can help you to:

• Overcome self-defeating or destructive behaviour patterns
• Feel more confident, centered, and less anxious
• Improve your relationships with others and yourself
• Live life more authentically, in line with your values

What You Can Expect

In the first session or two, the focus will be on assessing your needs from a holistic perspective, and on beginning to develop goals. From there, a typical counselling session revolves around helping you to:

• feel validated and deeply understood
• identify and connect more fully with your personal strengths
• find new ways of seeing yourself and/or your situation
• respond in a nurturing and effective way to different emotions
• actively apply practical and essential skills for emotional strengthening and healing

The style I use is gentle, thought-provoking, and focused. I am well trained in several well-established and highly effective counselling theories, including Psychodynamic, Interpersonal Process Psychotherapy, and Satir Systemic Therapy.

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