So what I'm going to do is give you a summarised breakdown of what types of counselling there are and in turn, hopefully will assist you in deciding what type of counselling you feel you may require.
Don't worry. I won't need you to tell me which one of the counselling techniques you wll need. Its my job to help you identify what you do need with empathy and confidentiality with the aim to promote your inner healing and personal development.
Whether a couple, parent, individual, a businessman, athlete, student or house-mum, if been abused, in personal pain needing to talk, whatever your counselling needs, on the request form is a selection of concerns that may apply to you or even someone you know and desire to help them breakthrough inside their emotions. If not, simply tick what you can and complete more details in the box where you can provide further details as to what you feel you require.
I'm here to support your goals and desire for authentic expression filled with the peace of mind you need in your life.
So, here we go...
Person-Centred Counselling
Here I acknowledge you, the client, as being very capable of fulfilling their own growth potential, yet recognise achieving this growth potential requires conditions that's favourable to yourself. Without this, the client may well not develop in ways they otherwise desire.
This is also true if the client is denied the acceptance and positive regard they deserve from other people, or when positive regard towards them is only conditional upon the client behaving in a certain way that is not true for themselves, hence losing touch their own authentic experiences.
Psychodynamic Counselling adopts the assumption that the client have feelings held in the unconscious mind that are most often too painful to be addressed or faced themselves. Their self-defences protect them from knowing what these painful feelings are all about.These defences are creating much more harm than good, to the client and also to others.
The counsellor is skilled and compassioned to unravel these hurts and painful experiences, to know what is really going on in their mind. Once this is addressed, the counsellor works to find ways to assist the client to the path of his/her own inner healing.
The purpose is that the clients feelings will not be as painful to cope and deal with, thus the client can move onto to more healthier, fuller relationships and greater self awareness with themselves and also with others.
Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
CBT assist the client to change they think (Cognitive), and also, what they you do (Behaviours).
With these changes, the client is able help them feel better emotionally, not primarily on the problems and difficulties on the here and now but improving the state of clients mind, not of the causes of distress, nor of the symptoms in the past.
[1] we have three part 'ego-states' to our 'personality.
[2] we converse with one another in 'transactions' (exchanges).
Parent, Adult and Child are the internal models we play in roles with one another in our relationships and even with ourselves in our own internal conversations.
Parent
There are two forms of Parent, both adopted by an individual in certain instance of behaviour.
[1] Parent Nurturing: caring, concerned, appearing as a mother-figure (and yes, men plays as this role too too), protect the Child with safety and unconditional love, calming them when they are troubled.
[2] Parent Controlling/Critical: tries to make the Child do as the parent wants them to do, perhaps transferring values or beliefs or helping the Child to understand and live in society. They may also have negative intent, using the Child as a whipping-boy/girl or worse.
Adult
This is the rational person. The 'grown up' who talks with fair reason, is assertive, not controlling nor reactional, is comfortable with whom they are within and is, for many, the 'ideal self'.
Child
There are three types of Child.
[1] The Natural Child is largely un-self-aware and is characterized by the non-speech noises they make. They like playing, are open and vulnerable.
[2] Little Professor: curious, exploring, always trying out new stuff (often to the Controlling Parent's annoyance). The Natural Child + The Little Professor = The Free Child.
[3] Adaptive Child: reactive to the world around them, changing themselves to fit in or rebelling against the forces they feel.
So, there you have it. As said before, counselling is really not a scary concept at all. In you feeling you need therapy, you are actually showing you feel the need to take charge of your life and your thought patterns, taking responsability for your life that's ahead of you. This is a show of strength in itself. Some people just need to talk to receive the healing and clarity they desire inside themselves. And you can too, starting today.
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