You will be offered a counselling style that is tailored to your individual needs. You can choose from diverse range of approaches and techniques depending of what is your personality type and what feels RIGHT for you. The most important thing is that you feel comfortable, safe and supported.
Counselling approaches range from:
Creative/play therapy to structured step by step approach.
From day-to-day support to in depth, deep trauma healing.
More in detail:
Creative/play approach:
Sand tray, stress toys, colouring books, mindfulness exercises, emotion cards, drawing or painting can be offered to you to explore your thoughts and feelings.
Structured therapy:
Handouts of exercises can be offered as part of:
CBT (Cognitive behavioural therapy)
Homework can be requested if you like to keep exploring your feelings and behaviours in-between sessions.
Day to day support:
After a long week you can have a place to vent about your frustrations and annoyances, things that overwhelmed you or confused you. Counselling can be a safe place for you to release, understand and process all that pent up emotion.
Deep trauma healing:
This is where you can have a safe and confidential space to open up about your difficult past experiences. You will be listened to in a supporting and non-judgemental way. This is where you can learn about your feelings, process them, accept or let go in a safe space.
Each one of us has different needs and here you will be able to find the counselling approach that works for you as an individual.
When the other person is hurting, confused, troubled, anxious, alienated, terrified; or when he or she is doubtful of self-worth, uncertain as to identity—then understanding is called for. The gentle and sensitive companionship offered by an empathic person… provides illumination and healing. In such situations deep understanding is, I believe, the most precious gift one can give to another.
Carl Rogers (A Way of Being, Houghton Mifflin, 1980: 160–161)
