Our Therapy SERVICES
In Person
Allows us to make a connection at a deeper level, and this is especially useful when working on client exploration and development to progress our work together.
The face-to-face meeting widens the therapeutic frame because it includes the journey to and from the session. By attending in person, all clients know they come to a safe and dependable address and to a familiar room. For some this provides their only place of safety.
Face-to-face counselling draws on all the senses, allowing for the full potential of verbal and non-verbal communication between the parties; the interaction with space and objects.
On The Phone
Is beneficial when the client has some distance to travel or is unable to travel due to disabilities or panic attacks.
It takes a commitment from the client to ensure that there are no distractions, but once these disciplines are in place, telephone counselling can be very successful.
Clients we have worked with often start telephone counselling and then move to face to face or Skype once they have built-up trust and say that telephone counselling was an important step.
Online Services
Via Zoom or Skype - If you’re thinking of seeing a Counsellor for the first time, you may feel worried about sitting opposite a stranger. Counselling can be daunting, especially when you’re feeling vulnerable. When getting out of the house is a struggle or meeting new people makes you anxious, face-to-face meetings can feel impossible.
Perhaps, you live far away from the city and don’t have access to a Counsellor or maybe you’re unable to get someone to take care of your kids.
Whatever is preventing you from reaching out, online counselling is a flexible alternative if:
· You don’t feel comfortable talking face-to-face
· You want to stay in the comfort of your own home
· You’re short on time
· You need to talk after hours
· You don’t have access to a nearby Counsellor
· You need to care for your kids
Much like traditional counselling, Online Counselling is a therapeutic conversation with a professional Counsellor. It’s a space where you can bring up aspects of your life you find troubling where you can begin to work through thoughts and feelings that may be getting in the way of you living a happy and productive life.
You choose the service that suits you...
Counselling - the most effective way to deal with the challenges that everyday life presents.
Cost
Please enquire at time of booking your counselling session.
Standard sessions run for 1 hour and, upon discussion, can be a single session or usually run for 6 sessions, as agreed with a review for further assistance.
THERAPY AREAS FOR CONSIDERATION
Mindfulness-Based Therapies
Relationship Counselling and Conflict Resolution
Child Development and Effective Parenting
Explores the key concepts of mindfulness as well as the central theories and techniques of a number of mindfulness-based therapeutic approaches to include:
• Employment of mindfulness-based therapies that are applied to relevant client situations such as Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) and mindfulness-based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT).
• How these approaches and techniques are used effectively with different client issues (e.g., anxiety, depression, stress, problem behaviours, etc.)
ACT primarily helps clients recognize and change problematic patterns of thinking and behaving.
By contrast, DBT primarily helps clients regulate intense emotions and improve interpersonal relationships through validation, acceptance and behaviour change.
CBT works by changing people's attitudes and their behaviour by focusing on the thoughts, images, beliefs and attitudes that are held (a person's cognitive processes) and how these processes relate to the way a person behaves, as a way of dealing with emotional problems.
Child Development and Effective Parenting
Relationship Counselling and Conflict Resolution
Child Development and Effective Parenting
Parents perform one of society's most important functions: they raise the next generation.
Unfortunately, however, we are rarely taught the skills required for effective parenting which are based upon behavioural principles which, when applied, are highly effective in bringing about positive and healthy behaviours for both the parent and the child.
Easy to follow programs including a step-by-step approach to effective parenting which can be readily applied or taught to parents.
• Utilising appropriate language when communicating with children
• Identifying appropriate parent-child communication styles
• Applying age-appropriate disciplinary strategies
• Assisting parents in fostering effective anger management strategies in their children
• Applying appropriate intervention strategies to minimise childhood anxiety
• Identifying strategies to foster self-esteem in children
• Teaching parents to use praise effectively
• Recognising the six step process for developing self-esteem in children
Relationship Counselling and Conflict Resolution
Relationship Counselling and Conflict Resolution
Relationship Counselling and Conflict Resolution
All too often today couples feel that relationships are just too much hard work, but how would you feel if you could turn that around; after all you've already invested so much of yourself why throw that away?
Counselling helps to understand the behaviour of your partner, husband or wife and find a way to work differently.
In sessions you will learn to hear each other, respect each other, set boundaries, come to agreements and learn how to be intimate again.
In some cases one or both of you might have decided to end the relationship and just need the safety of a mediator in order to have your feelings and opinions heard and find a way to work towards an amicable separation.
Exploration of the complexities of human relationships in such a way that appropriate counselling solutions can be directly related to relationship problems to include:
• The dynamics of interpersonal relationships, and recognising indications and contradictions
• Types of problems presented at relationship sessions
• The differences between men and women's styles of communication
• Effective work with couples and methods of solving relationship problems
• The process of solving relationship problems including understanding client needs and concerns, applying CUDSAIR techniques (Confront, Understand, Define, Search, Agree, Implement, and Review)
• Divorce counselling and mediation