Astrug Counselling

01/01/2026

14/11/2025

I am awfully proud to have received the best present on my birthday, my British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy Accreditation! After a lot of hard work, my practice has now received the recognition of meeting a higher standard as a competent, ethical and independent practitioner 🥳🤩😎

08/08/2025

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05/08/2025

IT'S HARD to imagine what to expect exactly, especially without prior experience. Let’s see some examples of counselling work with me specifically:

- Prioritise: often, when we feel overwhelmed, there are a number of topics / areas / feelings - let’s break them down, take one at a time.

- Filter: Separate bigger issues or long-term problems from what we can deal with today. Start with what we can focus on in the present to make a difference and then look at broader principles, or patterns, for the future.

- Look at attitudes: how do I see personal responsibility? Am I taking responsibility for other people or do I avoid responsibility? Do I know my boundaries?
What is my relationship to myself? How does it differ from my relationship to other people? How do I communicate with myself and with others?

- Reprogram: look at what I am telling myself - blame, labels, guilt, judgements. We will redefine those thoughts to include self-empathy, self-awareness, understanding of personal needs, conflicting needs or mixed feelings, and ways to balance and/or reconcile those.

- Investigate: What are the sources of my anxiety or low mood? Did I always have those beliefs / attitudes / feelings? How do I process difficult / traumatic experiences? How do I move on?

- Recharge: How do I care for myself? What self-care is best for me?y

23/06/2025

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." ~ Soren Kierkegaard
That's Life ❤️

29/05/2025

"We don't see things as they are,
we see them as we are."
— Anais Nin