{"id":22,"date":"2025-04-16T16:33:26","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T16:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phobic.co.uk\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2025-04-16T16:33:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T16:33:26","slug":"counselling-and-psychotherapy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/phobic.co.uk\/index.php\/counselling-and-psychotherapy\/","title":{"rendered":"COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY"},"content":{"rendered":"

WHAT <\/span>IS<\/span> COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY <\/span>AND<\/span> HOW CAN <\/span>IT<\/span> HELP?<\/span><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Counselling and psychotherapy <\/span>provides<\/span> a confidential, <\/span>non-judgemental<\/span> and supportive environment <\/span>in which<\/span> we will collaboratively explore your anxieties and concerns.<\/span> Sometimes called “the talking cure”, it can be a time for healing emotional pain and coming to a resolution about the past. Counselling and psychotherapy can also be about understanding your present behaviour and working towards change. <\/span>The opportunity to talk and offload with someone who listens and <\/span>moreover<\/span> hears is <\/span>in itself<\/span> deeply therapeutic.<\/span><\/p>\n

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My role as your counsellor and psychotherapist is to work empathically with you to encourage greater personal awareness and insight<\/span>, <\/span>in order<\/span> that<\/span> you can make the life changes <\/span>that<\/span> you long for.<\/span> I work with genuine respect for you and your <\/span>personal<\/span> values,<\/span> whilst offering alternative ways of<\/span> understanding yourself and your life. It offers you a therapeutic alliance which facilitates personal and spiritual growth. <\/span>It also encourages the development of the necessary inner resources and personal qualities <\/span>which<\/span> will support you <\/span>to<\/span> develop<\/span> the freedom to live more fully.<\/span><\/p>\n

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COUNSELLING MAY HELP YOU THROUGH A CURRENT CRISIS OR WITH ONGOING PROBLEMS,<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

FOR EXAMPLE:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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* Stress and anxiety<\/span><\/p>\n

* Relationship difficulties<\/span><\/p>\n

* Couples counselling<\/span><\/p>\n

* Parenting issues<\/span><\/p>\n

* Adoption<\/span><\/p>\n

* Bereavement and loss<\/span><\/p>\n

* Depression<\/span><\/p>\n

* Trauma <\/span>including<\/span> Developmental Trauma<\/span><\/p>\n

* Sexual difficulties<\/span><\/p>\n

* Low self-esteem<\/span><\/p>\n

* Anger issues<\/span><\/p>\n

* Ageing and <\/span>retirement<\/span><\/p>\n

* Life changes or finding a new direction<\/span><\/p>\n

* Career development and direction<\/span><\/p>\n

* Disability, illness or accident<\/span><\/p>\n

* Sexual abuse<\/span><\/p>\n

* Dissociative Identity Disorder and other dissociative states<\/span><\/p>\n

* Fertility problems, miscarriage and termination<\/span><\/p>\n

* Personal identity<\/span><\/p>\n

* Body image<\/span><\/p>\n

* Personality Disorders<\/span><\/p>\n

* Addictions including alcohol, drugs, cigarettes\u00a0<\/span>Quitza<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and food<\/span><\/p>\n

* Eating problems<\/span><\/p>\n

* Spiritual direction<\/span><\/p>\n

* Developing creativity<\/span><\/p>\n

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Some difficulties do not have a convenient label. <\/span>Perhaps you just feel unable to cope<\/span>, <\/span>or that life is unbearable, or perhaps <\/span>there may be<\/span> a past experience <\/span>that<\/span> is holding you back and needs talking through.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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