Psychodynamic and Integrative Counsellor
SERVICES
Welcome to Acomb Counselling & Psychotherapy Practice
What is counselling?
Counselling is a “talking therapy”. It can be useful when you are worried or upset by your feelings, your thoughts, or the way you are behaving. Such things can affect us very powerfully and leave us feeling out of control and unable to understand ourselves.
In the counselling I encourage you to talk openly about yourself and your difficulties even though you may find this upsetting, or embarrassing. I reflect with you on what you share, and help you to explore what is causing your problems. It can feel very supportive to have someone working with you in this way. However, at times it can also be very challenging, as I may be inviting you to look at yourself in quite a different way.
Where counselling is successful, it can help you to gain new insights into your emotional difficulties and to find new ways of dealing with them. I do not offer you advice, such as favouring one course of action above another. One of the aims of counselling is to help you make your own decisions about your life. What counselling cannot do is to take away the “ordinary unhappiness” of life. Some life events are very distressing and unsettling. However, given time and support people come to terms with what has happened and move on with their lives. It is when we become stuck in some way, and cannot recover and move on that counselling is helpful.
How do I work?
Our first meeting would be for an assessment, (which could take a couple of sessions to complete). This would allow me to consider whether I could help you, and would give you the chance to decide whether you felt you could work with me.
If we agreed to work together, I would see you once a week, at a regular time for a 50 minute session, and give you the opportunity to talk about yourself and your difficulties. You would be encouraged to speak as freely as you were able about your thoughts, feelings and concerns.
At our first session we would consider together what might be the appropriate number of sessions. Short term work (6-10 sessions) can be very effective where it is possible to focus clearly on one or two issues, but longer term work, (perhaps on an "open-ended" basis), may be needed for less clear or more complex problems.
The counselling relationship is quite different from other relationships - I have no contact with clients outside of our agreed time, and, unlike sharing with a friend, I do not tell you about myself or my problems.
Service Categories
Counselling, Psychotherapy
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