What is counselling?
Counselling takes place between a client and a counsellor in a confidential setting where they explore together any difficulties a client may be experiencing which may be causing them distress, anxiety, feeling low or depressed they may also have lost direction in their life.
When the client and the counsellor meet face to face the counsellor is actively listening, trying to get a sense of the difficulties that the client is experiencing. By exploring and talking through these difficulties it may become clearer to the client why they are experiencing these unsettling feelings. Counselling is a way of offering change giving the client more clearer choices with less confusion.
Clients will be allowed to express any feelings such as anger, guilt, loss and anxiety without being judged. This can be impossible with friends and family. Respect, acceptance and trust will be shown as the relationship develops between the counsellor and client. This will allow the client to look at their life from a different perspective enabling them to face up to or explore aspects of their life which may have been to painful in the past.
The client will be supported and encouraged to look at behaviour or situations with their life that are causing them distress and working with them to look at options for change. Counselling is not advice giving!