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What is counselling and how might it benefit?
Many of us can experience difficult times in our lives. Talking with family or friends can, of course, be helpful. But those people are part of your life, and it may feel too risky or scary to share with them your darker thoughts and feelings or just any of your thoughts and feelings. This may be when a counsellor is the person to turn to, someone with whom there is nothing at stake.
Those seeking counselling may have personal and/or relationship difficulties, maybe a feeling of unhappiness and discontent, or a wish to resolve specific problems. Sometimes we might feel that our behaviour patterns keep us stuck and prevent us having the fulfilling life we wish for. Psychodynamic counselling can help you explore your thoughts and feelings, and perhaps make sense of where you are in life and how you got there. Looking at the issues that may concern you can give you understanding and insight. Psychodynamic counselling can be both challenging and painful, which means commitment is required as we re-experience past difficulties or memories, and perhaps look at uncomfortable feelings.
Counselling can be described as a type of help based on listening. Sometimes just to have the opportunity to talk, and know that you are being heard by someone who is not going to jump in with advice or judge you, can make a difference.
Difficulties or problems may include:
- Anger
- Anxiety and stress
- Bereavement and loss
- Coping with past abuse
- Depression / Low mood
- Low self esteem and lack of confidence
- Personal and Relationship Issues
- Relationship breakdown
- Working through crisis
What is Psychodynamic Counselling?
In a nutshell, Psychodynamic Counselling is rooted in the belief that experiences and relationships from our past, including our earliest developing years, can influence our experiences and relationships in the present, both at a conscious and unconscious level. This can mean that you respond/react to a situation or person in the present 'as if' it is the past.
You will not be given advice, but assisted to identify, explore and understand the issues and patterns of behaviour that are troubling you. It is this process and your relationship with me as your counsellor that offers the possibility of change or acceptance of that which cannot be changed.