The transformative power of professional counselling
Professional counselling is a safe and confidential collaboration between qualified counsellors and clients which promote; mental health and well-being, enhance self-understanding and resolves presented concerns. Counsellors are fully present with their clients using empathy and active listening which fosters a healing and trusting therapeutic alliance. Clients are an active participant and the expert in their counselling journey.
Counselling is a process for clients to discuss and work through personal challenges with a counsellor. The counsellor assists clients to address concerns in an empathetic way by helping clarify issues, explore patterns, develop interventions and increase self-awareness. For some clients, just the process of sharing their narrative with a counsellor, is effective when they feel understood, respected, safe and accepted without judgement.
Counsellors work with children, young people, adults, couples, families and groups. Counselling could be short term, long term, or over a lifetime, depending on client's needs.
Counsellors are trained in a variety of modalities to work with clients from diverse backgrounds.
Counselling is a profession with a strong evidence base. Counsellors use empirically supported interventions and specialised interpersonal skills to facilitate transformation and empower clients.
Personal growth facilitated by counselling include: new insight, change of perspective, deeper understanding of basic needs, new ways of thinking about situations, awareness and understanding of emotions, recognise patterns, new behaviours and mindset, enhanced capacity to tolerate and regulate emotions/feelings and new decisions about life.
Common reasons for seeking counselling
Counselling can be broad or focused. Clients may explore; grief and loss, identity, relationships with self and others, dysfunctional family dynamics, parenting, spirituality, abuse, trauma, domestic violence, separation and divorce, addiction, depression, anger management, stress, work issues, anxiety, self-esteem, self-worth and past experiences.
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