How counselling can help you
Counselling is often described as a ‘talking therapy' and can be seen as a series of conversations that attempt to help you make sense of your life.
Counselling aims to help you explore and clarify problems and issues that matter to you. It may help you develop resources and skills to cope with difficulties. It may help you get through a distressing time in your life.
Counselling is not only about problems, it also offers opportunities to get to know yourself better and to develop your potential as a person.
Counselling can help you to clarify those aspects of your life that cause you distress, confusion or lead you to feel stuck or unfulfilled. It can result in you being able to understand those things better and become more able to make choices about those things that you may wish to change and also to come to terms with those things that you can't.
People come to counselling for all sorts of reasons. You might have experienced a significant life change, such as a relationship breakdown or bereavement or there could be a desire to identify and change unhelpful patterns of behaviour. There might not be a clear reason for you wanting to start counselling; you may be experiencing general feelings of unhappiness, anxiety or dissatisfaction with your life and counselling can be a way of exploring and understanding what these feelings could mean.