Services
What is Counselling & Psychotherapy?
Counselling is all about providing you with non-judgmental support as you work through emotional difficulties.
These difficulties vary considerably e.g. depression, anxiety and this naturally influences how you are supported. Broadly speaking the main aims of counselling and psychotherapy are to:-
- Provide you with a confidential, supportive and safe place in which to express your difficulties
- Help you to identify your patterns in thinking, behaving and coping that are negatively impacting on your life
- Support you in identifying changes that are realistic i.e. help you to work through your choices
- When we are distressed, we often become very muddled and confused, which can impact on how we make decisions, behave and think. Counselling can give you the space to see problems more clearly
- Enhance or adapt your coping skills, using your resources to help you get through difficult times
- Empower you to be the best that you can be within your own resources.
What is the difference between Counselling and Psychotherapy?
The difference is that counselling relates to more short-term work and tends to focus with the problem(s) that you are faced with now. Psychotherapy involves longer-term work as it helps you to explore difficulties that relate to your past that are still continuing to influence how you are today.