v Counselling provides you with the opportunity to work through a particular problem, without anyone judging you,
offering a safe and confidential environment where you can explore freely issues that may be concerning you.
v Through the counselling process, you will not only learn new ways to deal with the problems you are facing now,
but you will also develop skills and new resources to assist you in the future.
v Counselling offers a chance to talk about anger and frustrations without the risk of losing
control or hurting others.
Providing short-term regular
counselling appointments in a confidential environment to help individuals or families work towards their solutions.
How does it work?
By actively listening the counsellor can begin to perceive the difficulties
from the client's point of view and can help them to see things more clearly, possibly from a different perspective.
Counselling is a way of enabling choice or change or of reducing confusion.
It does not involve giving advice or directing a client to take a particular course of action. Counsellors do not judge or
exploit their clients in any way.
In the counselling sessions the client can explore various aspects
of their life and feelings, talking about them freely and openly in a way that is rarely possible with friends or family.
Bottled up feelings such as anger, anxiety, grief and embarrassment
can become very intense and counselling offers an opportunity to explore them, with the possibility of making them easier
to understand.
Acceptance and respect for the client are essentials for a counsellor
and, as the relationship develops, so too does trust between the counsellor and client, enabling the client to look at many
aspects of their life, their relationships and themselves which they may not have considered or been able to face before.
Counselling is about change
Counselling provides a regular time and space for people to talk about
their troubles and explore difficult feelings, in an environment that is dependable, free from intrusion and confidential.
The counsellor
may help the client to examine in detail the behaviour or situations which are proving troublesome and to find an area where
it would be possible to initiate some change as a start.
A counsellor will respect your viewpoint, while helping you to deal
with specific problems, cope with crises, improve your relationships, or develop better ways of living.
The goal is that the client understands themselves
and their issues better, to get clarity and to get in touch with and develop coping and strengths in order to put plans into
action to change their situation.
Counselling works through facilitating the client to cope better,
not by advising or by providing answers, and not by directing a client.
Sessions normally take place once a week. Making this regular commitment gives you a better
chance of working through your difficulties to a solution. 
