counselling

Counselling is an interaction in which the counsellor offers another person the time, attention and respect necessary to explore, discover and clarify ways of living more resourcefully, and to his or her greater well-being. Counselling is a way of empowering the client to cope with their current situation and help them explore ways to improve their situation.

The aim of counselling is to enable clients to take responsibility for their own lives and emphasises choice. Counselling aims to make clients more decisive and better choosers for themselves and their situation.

Counselling is about helping you to make sense of your thoughts and feelings so that you can then make decisions about what to do to bring about change in your life.

Areas in which counselling can help include:

• abuse (emotional, physical, sexual) - violence, bullying or neglect in many forms
• anxiety
• avoiding behaviour - tasks, people, places
• bereavement
• bereavement, grief and loss
• depression
• difficulty in making decisions
• feeling "stuck" in lots of different ways
• generally feeling "down"

• help in making a big life decision
• irritability
• issues around food and weight control,
• low confidence and self esteem
• phobias
• relationship difficulties - personal or work related
• sleep disturbances
• stress
• suicidal thoughts
• alcohol / substance abuse
• traumatic memories
  

Simon Proudlock, principal of the Counselling Life Coach is a Chartered Counselling Psychologist and Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and the British Psychological Society (BPS) and abides by the BACP Code of Ethics and the BPS Code of Ethics. He is registered as a Psychologist with the Health Professionals Council.