Counselling
Counselling is a process that focuses on enhancing your psychological well-being, so that you are then able to reach your full potential. To this end the counsellor facilitates your personal growth, development, and self-understanding, which in turn empowers you to adopt more constructive life practices.
Counselling offers people the opportunity to increase their self awareness and therefore begin the journey of bringing positive change in to their lives. Counselling is a partnership between the counsellor and the client.
Effective Uses Of Counselling
Counselling may be helpful in a number of ways. It can enable you to develop a clearer understanding of your concerns and help you acquire new skills to better manage personal and educational issues. The counsellor can offer a different perspective and help you think of creative solutions to problems.
Sharing your thoughts and feelings with someone not personally involved in your life can be most helpful. People often seek counselling because they are feeling unhappy or dissatisfied with one or several aspects of their life. They may be feeling anger, frustration, apathy or hurt about some issues that are taking place in their life.
Many people may feel that it has become too difficult to work through it on their own, they need some clarity, someone to listen to them who is neutral and removed from the issue.
. Increase in self confidence
. Improved health and well being
. Better relationships
. Greater sense of balance between work and personal life
. Ability to make decisions and resolve conflict
Counselling is always conducted within strongly defined Confidentiality Guidelines. All of this is explained inThe First Consultation.
The Counselling Process
The counselling process can be broadly described as following these steps:
1. Background information collection
2. Identification of core issues
3. Case formulation
4. Goal setting for the therapeutic process
5. Implementation of intervention
6. Evaluation of intervention closure