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COUNSELLING
Counselling is about change. To be effective it is entered into voluntarily and its aim is to provide an opportunity for a client to work towards living in a more satisfying and resourceful way. The right for a client to make his or her own decisions is repected.
As a client you may wish to make changes to the way you have been living or working or relating to others. You may have some unresolved conflicts troubling your sense of well being or worries or debilitating emotions regarding recent or past events such as divorce, bereavement or abuse. Counselling is a process that will help you work through these issues and to understand them. It will help you identify feelings and to learn ways of appropriately dealing with them. When problems are identified and clarified potential solutions can be explored using your inner resources to manage them more effectively.
My approach will be warm, genuine and accepting. Through openness I will strive to understand your experiential reality and to grasp what you need for your emotional flourishing. I will demonstrate an ability to facilitate the realisation of such needs in the right manner and at the right time.
Before counselling begins I will encourage the creation of a counselling contract between us. This contract defines the boundaries within which counselling will be provided,including method, duration, fees and level of confidentiality.
Counselling will be provided privately on a one-to-one basis normally in sessions of 50 minutes duration. I may make written notes of the sessions. These notes will be retained securely and will be destroyed after an agreed time lapse following the end of therapy.
Confidentiality is an essential component of the counselling process. Only in rare cases will confidentiality be broken. Examples are where a serious criminal offence has or is to be committed or where an individual's (inclding the client's) safety and welfare is being put at risk. The boundaries regarding confidentiality will be agreed upon before counselling starts.
I will abide by a strict code of practice and ethics.
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