Feeling safe
and understood allows
you to share all
that you are
and all that
you wish to be.
Counselling is your
time to share
what you wish to share at a pace that is right for you
Counselling For Adults
Sometimes life can feel unmanageable, overshadowed by problems or terrible thoughts and feelings.
Counselling or psychotherapy provides you with an opportunity to gain insight in to your present situation, feelings and behaviour. By doing so you will be better able to understand and make a clear and
informed choice about your future options in life. This process allows you to talk about your feelings or concerns within a confidential and supportive environment.
What form of counselling or psychotherapy is available?
There are a number of different psychological therapies. Examples of these are Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Psychodynamic and Person-Centred Therapy. At the Centre for Counselling we adopt an integrative approach to counselling and psychotherapy. This allows us to blend a variety of approaches together in a single framework. It also means that we can offer you a choice of either short-term or long-term therapy solutions.
All counselling begins with the establishment of a therapeutic relationship in which a client feels safe and understood. This is essential to allow you to share all that you are and all that you wish to be. From this base a therapeutic journey can then begin.
The range of issues we regularly work with include:
Approaches to Therapy (as defined by the BACP):
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). This type of therapy combines cognitive and behavioural techniques. Clients are taught ways to change thoughts and expectations, with the use of relaxation techniques. CBT has been effective for stress-related ailments, phobias, obsessions, eating disorders, and major depression (sometimes when combined with drug treatment).
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy/Counselling. This approach stresses the importance of the unconscious and past experience in shaping current behaviour. The client is encouraged to talk with their therapist about childhood relationships with parents and other significant people, and the therapist focuses on the dynamics of the client/therapist relationship. ‘Transference’; when the client projects their feelings experienced in previous significant relationships on to the therapist, is a method used in this type of therapy. The psychodynamic approach is derived from psychoanalysis, but usually provides a quicker solution to emotional problems.
Person/Client-Centred Therapy. Devised by Carl Rogers, this therapy is based on the idea that a client enters into a relationship with the counsellor where the client is allowed to freely express any emotions and feelings. This enables the client to come to terms with the negative feelings that may have caused emotional problems, and develop personal skills. The objective is for the client to become able to see themselves as a person with power and freedom to change.
Counselling or psychotherapy provides you with an opportunity to gain insight in to your present situation, feelings and behaviour. By doing so you will be better able to understand and make a clear and
informed choice about your future options in life. This process allows you to talk about your feelings or concerns within a confidential and supportive environment.
What form of counselling or psychotherapy is available?
There are a number of different psychological therapies. Examples of these are Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Psychodynamic and Person-Centred Therapy. At the Centre for Counselling we adopt an integrative approach to counselling and psychotherapy. This allows us to blend a variety of approaches together in a single framework. It also means that we can offer you a choice of either short-term or long-term therapy solutions.
All counselling begins with the establishment of a therapeutic relationship in which a client feels safe and understood. This is essential to allow you to share all that you are and all that you wish to be. From this base a therapeutic journey can then begin.
The range of issues we regularly work with include:
Approaches to Therapy (as defined by the BACP):
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). This type of therapy combines cognitive and behavioural techniques. Clients are taught ways to change thoughts and expectations, with the use of relaxation techniques. CBT has been effective for stress-related ailments, phobias, obsessions, eating disorders, and major depression (sometimes when combined with drug treatment).
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy/Counselling.
Person/Client-Centred Therapy. Devised by Carl Rogers, this therapy is based on the idea that a client enters into a relationship with the counsellor where the client is allowed to freely express any emotions and feelings. This enables the client to come to terms with the negative feelings that may have caused emotional problems, and develop personal skills. The objective is for the client to become able to see themselves as a person with power and freedom to change.