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Welcome to Abacus Counselling Services
Abacus is an independent counselling organisation providing individual and personal confidential support offering time, attention and respect within counselling sessions.
Abacus experienced counsellors are trained in many aspects of counselling including person centred and cognitive methods, professionally qualified all are experienced in working with, relationship issues, mediation, mentoring and life coaching. These skills and expertise consolidate and facilitate professional support services to clients regardless of individual status.
Abacus can also offer organisational and management consultancy for statutory and voluntary groups to support personnel in work-life balance.
The aim of counselling is to give the client an opportunity to explore and resolve issues to manage a positive way of living. This may be finding resolutions to conflict within the workplace or helping individuals work through personal relationships by identifying and addressing some of the problems that arise.
Within the counselling framework, counsellors respect client’s values and are supportive and non-judgemental and encourage the client to solve difficulties using the client’s own resources.
Abacus Counselling Services is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychology (BACP) and all counsellors comply with the ethical framework laid down by the BACP.
What is Counselling?
Simply put counselling is a working relationship in which individuals are helped to explore and manage what is happening in their life.
The overall aim of counselling is to provide an opportunity for the client to work towards a more satisfying and resourceful experience of life.
The counsellor's role is to facilitate ways that, respect individual client values, and personal resources.
Abacus Counsellors are independent, neutral and professional and respect personal privacy.
Counselling can help individuals come to terms with specific issues and situations, review options and decide upon actions.
Counselling will be a specific arrangement between the client and counsellor. It will be entirely private and the counsellor will accept the individual regardless of status or lifestyle.
Relationship Issues
Abacus Counsellors work with individuals and couples experiencing difficulties in relationships . They use methods based on successful therapies that aim to strengthen relationships, enhance intimacy, and promote relationship stability.
Mediation
Many people enter mediation to seek resolve to traumatic issues and recognise the need for change to make life events manageable.
Abacus Counselling Services can help individuals by providing effective solutions and support positive changes to individual circumstances through a integrated, empathetic and productive approach.
The main aims are to support individuals to make informed and empowered decisions through an empathic , peaceful, caring and attentive process.
Mentoring
By using mentoring methods within counselling , Counsellors can support individuals beliefs and values in a positive way.
Consolidating a broader view of personal knowledge and experiences aids individuals to focus on career and personal development issues and open doors to other opportunities.
Life Coaching
Life Coaching allows individuals to explore personal aims and offers methods of support and encouragement for individuals to achieve personal success. Abacus Counsellors can support opportunities to personal improvement as well as practical ways to acknowledge individual achievements and goals.
Counsellors will actively listen and encourage individuals to talk through difficult issues and then take positive steps towards setting and achieving reachable goals.
By being committed and working together with their counsellor individuals can make positive and rewarding changes to personal life experiences.
Work Life Balance
Work-life is the practice of providing initiatives designed to create a more flexible, supportive work environment, enabling employees to focus on work tasks while at work.
Abacus Counselling consultancy facilitates liaison with statutory and voluntary organisations to support employees. Through this experience Abacus consolidates work culture that offers support, addresses life event needs and develops policies that equip employees and businesses to use flexible work practices as a strategy to meet positive dual needs.
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Counselling
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