Counselling and psychotherapy are strictly confidential, non-judgmental therapies. They offer an opportunity to review your problems or issues in a safe environment with someone professionally trained to help. In the counselling sessions you will be able to explore various aspects of your life and feelings, talking about them freely and openly in a way that is rarely possible with friends or family. Bottled-up feelings such as anger, anxiety, grief and embarrassment can become very intense;counselling offers an opportunity to discuss them and explore ways to make the life changes you want.

How counselling and psychotherapy works
Counselling is usually shorter term work than psychotherapy and more focused on helping you provide answers and solutions to immediate problems that you may be struggling with. The therapist will listen to you and begin to perceive the difficulties from your point of view and help you to see things more clearly, from a different perspective. Counselling is a way of enabling choice or change and a way of reducing confusion.                    

Psychotherapy is a longer-term process of healing and change which offers the opportunity to look more deeply into your life, exploring your feelings, beliefs and thoughts and often their roots from your past. You discuss what's happening in your life and  the therapist will help you to make the connections between the past and the present;   This can help to show how some of the things that you feel, do and say are not driven by your conscious thoughts, but by unconscious feelings from your past. When you better understand these connections, you can make decisions based on what you want to do or need to do now, not what your past experiences are driving you to do.         

Benefits of therapy
Therapy can help with any problems causing you concern. These can include anxiety, depression, bereavement, relationship difficulties, low self-esteem, poor self-confidence, a traumatic experience, loss of direction, panic attacks and stress. Sometimes we may not be aware of what is causing us to feel low and depressed, therapy can help to explore and find out why we have these feelings and help to develop strategies to cope better and make the positive changes you want to make.