What is Counselling?

Counselling allows you time to talk about and reflect on your feelings, thoughts, concerns and what makes life difficult for you. You are helped to discover the reasons for negative feelings and to work out ways of dealing with them. A key objective of this service is to help you take control of your life and to understand why you feel the way you do and how to handle these feelings in the future. It can be a place to learn different ways of communicating with others so you become more assertive, or you may develop greater self-respect and confidence. Often it is only when we talk to someone unconnected with our lives that we begin to hear what we are really saying and feeling. 

Psychotherapy might deal with any of the issues covered by counselling but working at a deeper level. It is often more effective when working on long-term, difficult to change problems like, Compulsions, Obsessions, Phobia's and Depression amongst others. 

Psychotherapy can be used to look at: how to expand your range of choices, examining inner conflicts, spiritual and personal growth and looking at how we choose to be in the world.