Integrative Counselling
Counselling
is a special, one-to-one relationship between client and counsellor,
which acts as a base for the client to make positive changes in his/her
life.
Within a professional relationship with clearly defined boundaries and maximum confidentiality, the counsellor provides a safe, respectful and non-judgmental environment, combining specific skills with extensive theoretical knowledge and intuition in order to help clients explore their issues more deeply.
The overall aim of the therapeutic process is not to give advice or provide answers, although often a different perspective may be offered. What counselling does do is help clients to find their own answers through the self-awareness which can come from such exploration. Without telling the client what to do, the counsellor empowers the client to move towards being the person they would like to be and/or living the life they wish to live, and to do so in his/her own way.
Some of the reasons why people come to counselling include anxiety, depression, stress, family, relationship or work problems, addictions, eating disorders, feeling stuck, or just a desire for general personal growth. Most people can benefit from counselling if they are open to it and willing to work on themselves, although at times they may feel challenged or uncomfortable in the process
An integrative counsellor does not believe that “one size fits all”, and draws on different theories rather than relyiong purely on one. I personally also work with imagery, dreams, the body and creative approaches such as drawing, writing and clay modelling as ways to access deeper levels of awareness.
Within a professional relationship with clearly defined boundaries and maximum confidentiality, the counsellor provides a safe, respectful and non-judgmental environment, combining specific skills with extensive theoretical knowledge and intuition in order to help clients explore their issues more deeply.
The overall aim of the therapeutic process is not to give advice or provide answers, although often a different perspective may be offered. What counselling does do is help clients to find their own answers through the self-awareness which can come from such exploration. Without telling the client what to do, the counsellor empowers the client to move towards being the person they would like to be and/or living the life they wish to live, and to do so in his/her own way.
Some of the reasons why people come to counselling include anxiety, depression, stress, family, relationship or work problems, addictions, eating disorders, feeling stuck, or just a desire for general personal growth. Most people can benefit from counselling if they are open to it and willing to work on themselves, although at times they may feel challenged or uncomfortable in the process
An integrative counsellor does not believe that “one size fits all”, and draws on different theories rather than relyiong purely on one. I personally also work with imagery, dreams, the body and creative approaches such as drawing, writing and clay modelling as ways to access deeper levels of awareness.