Sometimes counselling is just having a skilled, supportive listener which in itself enables you to find solutions and resources.

Usually the counselling session is tailored for your unique situation.
Every counsellor has a Code of Ethics and Code of Practice to ensure you are professionally cared for.

Counsellors have different theories to facilitate personal growth and development in order to improve your life circumstances. The counselling process will help you gain clarification of your problems and also point to the background of your behaviours and thoughts.

The purpose of counselling is to enable you to be on the path for a satisfying and successful life.

Counselling can help with issues such as: stress and anxiety, relationship problems, parenting issues, time management, feeling low, low self esteem, grief and loss, inner child healing, sexual issues, employment problems and money issues. Counselling and Psychotherapy cross over in many ways. Often counselling is seen as more practical and psychotherapy is seen as an investigation as to why you think in certain ways - based on the past.

But both therapies offer this. Psychotherapists and Counsellors often use different methods and approaches which may provide the appropriate professional healing relationship between them and yourself.

Psychotherapists and counsellors usually receive payment for their time and skills which defines the relationship as a professional relationship. This differs to other relationships you may have because you only meet in the counselling space.

Psychotherapy’s time frame may be a matter of weeks or many months, depending on the life direction you wish to take. You may want to deal with everyday problems which may be brief; or learn to manage or maintain person relationships and address long term goals as a longer process.

Psychotherapists also employ a range of techniques to illustrate how you can adapt or change in your chosen direction. These can be based on thinking about your options ‘out of the box’. They may take a re-look at your relationships. They may talk about, and implement behaviour change strategies using fresh ideas based in your present circumstances – not based on past patterns.

Each is designed to improve your current status or the way you relate to others. Most forms of psychotherapy use only spoken conversation. Some use other forms of communication such as writing tasks, artwork, drama, narrative story, or therapeutic touch.

Therapists respect your confidentiality during psychotherapy because sensitive topics are often discussed. This is only excepted in the case of extreme danger to you or someone close to you or for extreme legal reasons.