Specialities
Our counselling service specialises in helping and assisting you through any kind of Personal and Relationship counselling points, including:
Personal Counselling
We all get ‘stuck’ occasionally: and we all feel and experience tension and stress at various times. Personal Counselling is very beneficial and helpful for us when we feel stuck, troubled, tense, frightened, stressed, or unsure of ourselves.
Our Counsellors provide you with a safe, warm environment in which you can discuss you issues and problems and feel safety and security:
People who seek counselling are often feeling vulnerable or confused so expressing their concerns in a safe and secure environment is very important.
Within this safe and secure environment we will help you work through your issues or problems and together we will achieve a positive outcome for you.
Our Counsellor’s will help you learn to create more efficient strategies and plans for your future. They will help you achieve a more pleasant, more beneficial outcome.
Helping you achieve a positive outcome is done by communicating your problems or issues with our counsellor. By communicating your issues with our Counsellors in a safe, secure environment they will help you work through and resolve your issues. Talking with our Counsellors will assist you to understand yourself and your actions and behaviour better. It will also help you understand other people’s actions and behaviour better. Counselling will give you greater insight into “why you and other people do what they do”. Our Counsellor will also help you create better and more effective strategies and plans to resolve or reduce your issues or problems.
People find counselling to be a very liberated and empowered experience. Counselling can help you gain greater self-awareness and power. That is why our Counsellors will provide you with an opportunity to work towards a more satisfying and happier life.
Relationship Counselling
If you relationship, or relationships, are in trouble – we can help.
Most relationships have “rocky” patches. And for people in a relationship that feels like it is “rocky” - it can be very upsetting.
Our Counsellors will help and assist you to fix or repair your relationships and smooth out the “rocky” patches. They will help you gain more clarity about what is actually causing the rift in your relationships. Our Counsellors will help you feel better and happier within your relationship.
Relationship counselling helps you understand yourself and your partner better as you relate to each other within the relationship.
Through relationship counselling you and your partner will learn new and more effective way to communicate and relate. You will get to better understand each other’s thoughts, words, and feelings. You will also learn how to express your wants and desires in a safe, non-threatening manner.
This is achieved by both of you learning how to communicate with each other in a way that you can both understand. You will learn how to effectively talk and listen to each other.
In the process of doing this you will feel better understood by your partner. When people feel as though they are being listened to they feel as though they are important, and we all like to feel important. Out need for recognition and validation is universal. We all like to feel understood and recognised and validated.
Relationship counselling helps both the individual and the relationship partnership. Relationship counselling is a win-win situation for everyone.
Relationship counselling has been proven to be very effective and beneficial to yourself, your relationship and your life style.
Mental Health
Our mind is how we survive. We have to think (use our mind) to operate through life. Before we do anything we have to think about doing it. It stands to reason then that the healthier our mind, the healthier our life.
But sometimes our mind lets us down. Sometimes our mind pays tricks on us and causes us be sad or low.
Seeing a university qualified counsellor to help us get our mind back on track can be a very helpful exercise.
Depression
Depression is a lot more common than you realise. A lot of people feel sad and blue and can’t seem to shake it.
Depression is extra nasty because you can’t see it, you can only feel it. You might be feeling sad and lonely, or having negative thoughts, but because you can’t see any obvious signs you are not sure what is going on.
That is why coming to see us will help you overcome your down or depressed times. We understand how and why people get depressed and feel down. We have the knowledge and experience to help you overcome your depression and become happy again.
If you feel hopeless and life “stinks”, if you feel as thought “you are in a tunnel with no way out”, or you feel that the future is so bleak that there is no point to it all - you may be suffering from some form of depression.
If you have felt in a bleak, blue, sad, depressed state and you have lost interest or pleasure in most of the things you do for the past few weeks, or you feel that life is pointless and nothing ever goes your way – you may be suffering from some form of depression.
If you are suffering from depression the best thing you can do is admit it. Only when you realise that you are suffering from depression can you then get help. “If you don’t think something is broken it will never be fixed”.
You Can Overcome Depression.
Depression is “fixable”. Contact us and we would be more than happy to help.
ANXIETY/PANIC/PHOBIA
Anxiety, phobias and panic are like depression. They all affect your mind. You feel on edge all the time and anxious about everything, or you panic about most things - but you can’t see that anything is wrong.
If you feel that things always go wrong and you always have to be on the lookout for things and people to “trip you up” – you may be suffering from anxiety, phobias, or panic.
If you feel overly anxious and worried far more than you feel calm and stable, or if you feel restless, have difficulty concentrating, and have trouble sleeping – you may be suffering from some form of Anxiety or Panic.
Do have a fear of something – e.g. spiders or people– that makes it hard for you to live a your normal life. If you are you so scared of afraid of this person, people or thing that you change your life style so you don’t have to deal with them or it – you may be suffering from some form of phobia.
Anxiety, phobia, and panic (like depression) are extra nasty because you can’t see them, you can only feel them.
That is why coming to see us will help you overcome your anxious, worrying, or phobia. We understand how and why people get anxious, worried and panicky. We have the knowledge and experience to help you get on top of your anxiety, panic and phobias and enjoy life again.
If you are feeling anxious or worried the best thing you can do is admit it. If you feel overly anxious, panicky or phobic – we can help.
You Can Overcome Anxiety, Panic and Phobias.
Contact us and we would be more than happy to help you. We want you to be happy and would be glad to help you become happy and less stressed, less anxious and less fearful.