Our low cost service is available to all offering a confidential one-to-one and couples Therapeutic Counselling and Psychotherapy in the South East region. Anyone seeking Counselling Support is currently referred to our Counsellors who will, upon your request, contact you to arrange an appointment. Counselling is about clearing the fog to help you find your way through the maze. Whatever you’re going through, we believe the keys to the solutions are
already within you … perhaps they’re just not so easy to see right now. Counselling Psychotherapy offers help in a safe and confidential setting. As Counselling Psychotherapists, we aim to provide a supportive and encouraging environment. It is important to us to demonstrate understanding and sensitivity to clients’ feelings and emotions and we feel that through nurturing and valuing our clients’ strengths and resources, opportunity is provided to explore their individual experience of distress and encourage insight into patterns of behaviour that may be preventing them from leading fulfilling and satisfying lives. Our Therapeutic Approach is Integrative and draws on a background of Adlerian, Person Centred, Psychodynamic, Gestalt, Narrative and Transactional Analysis Training. Counselling and Psychotherapy are processes whereby a person can meet with a counsellor/therapist in a quiet, private environment to seek help in exploring and understanding thoughts, behaviours and circumstances that are troubling them. The discussion between the person and the counsellor is confidential. Confidentiality is a central and integral part of the counselling process and is assured to each client who avails of counselling. Our aim is to provide a comprehensive and skilled Counselling Psychotherapy service, committed to the highest degree of integrity, confidentiality, ethical practice and care for clients. Our policy of confidentiality ensures that any individual attending counselling can freely discuss the most sensitive of issues in a protective and caring environment, safe in the knowledge that his/her identity and issues will not be divulged. In exceptional circumstances, counsellors may need to break confidentiality if they believe there is a real intent of serious harm or danger to: their client, a person under 18 years of age and another individual. Such circumstances may pertain to issues relating to sexual abuse, rape, self-harm, suicidal ideation or criminal activity. In as far as is possible, in such cases, a full explanation will be given regarding the necessary procedures that may need to be taken. Our participating therapists receive ongoing professional supervision and continuous training in counselling & psychotherapy. This ensures the service you receive is of the highest standard. The counsellor/therapist aims to create a non-judgemental climate where the person seeking help can feel accepted and supported while expressing their feelings, ideas, and emotions in safety. The counsellor/therapist also tries to help the person to explore whatever lies behind these feelings and emotions and to come to accept that they are part of him/her. This process enables the person to gain new perspectives on their problems, discover inner resources, build the strength to make meaningful choices and live a more satisfying life. Counselling Psychotherapy aims to provide a comprehensive and skilled counselling and psychotherapy service, committed to the highest degree of ethical practice and care for clients. Entering Psychotherapy or Counselling is a significant step in anyone’s life and may be a new experience for you. You may find it helpful to consider these points:
1.People seeking help can be referred by their GP or other concerned professional, or may make contact directly themselves.
2.This first session will provide you an opportunity to meet and ask any questions, as well as to jointly assess, whether therapy or counselling may be useful for you at this time.
3.Where appropriate, counselling psychotherapy will be offered to you. But if it is felt, after careful discussion together, that these would not be appropriate at the moment, other forms of help can be considered and discussed together, and a next step identified. Clients will usually arrange to attend for one session per week, keeping consistency to time and day where possible. This regularity may hopefully enhance the experience of emotional containment and holding. Our sessions last for 50 minutes.
