What I Can Help You With?
Because I am an Integrative Counsellor, I don’t have a specific speciality, but the following is to give you an idea of how I can help:
- 1. Work related stress and anxieties including bullying, addressing working practices including learning to create and maintain boundaries so don’t feel overwhelmed, changing career, feeling lost and not having a sense of purpose or direction
- 2. Living with past regrets, experiences including abuse and learning to leave them in the past so that they aren’t impacting every day life, whilst creating a sense of a positive future
- 3. Relationships, either the ending of one, the beginning of a new relationship, developing new relationships, including romantic, friends and family members.
- 4. Relocation, reduction in confidence, creating a sense of belonging, making connections
- 5. Self esteem and confidence issues, learning to feel more comfortable in own skin. Developing confidence in decision making. Creating a deeper insight into own personality and character and how certain traits influence the way that we are. Learning to be assertive, creating and maintaining boundaries and learning to use own voice with confidence that deserve to be heard and taken seriously
- 6. Perimenopausal and menopausal, as a woman learning about new changes and how to manage and cope going forward. Also as a partner or family member, learning to support her during this time, whilst having a place to go to release how it’s affecting you too.
- 7. Going through new stage of life, learning to live with past regrets or disappointments yet feel like still have opportunities ahead. By sharing, can help create focus and direction as well as grieving for what was, lost opportunities and risks that at the time felt too big but now regret not trying.
- 8. Historical trauma including PTSD. Finding a way to heal and leave the incident(s) in the past so that not impacted on a day to day basis. Can include past child abuse or neglect, bullying, physical and/or sexual abuse, financial abuse. But also if you have been in accident and it caused issues for you since, or have suffered medical negligence for example a procedure which didn’t go according to plan
- 9. Change in life or circumstances eg long term health condition, being made redundant or losing career, losing a loved one or a beloved pet
- 10. Feeling like an outsider, feeling like considered different or odd. Always in own head trying to work things out. Thoughts running a million miles an hour but never seem to be able to achieve anything. Feeling lost – expectations to be a certain way for example. Struggling to make acquaintances and friends and feeling like can belong
- 11. Learning to be a listener but also learning how to share effectively and be heard and taken seriously. This includes being the mediator or peacemaker and how that role can make us feel frustrated, used, upset and hurt.