What to Expect
Initial Chat & Assessment
Initial Chat & Assessment
Initial Chat & Assessment
Initially we can arrange a free zoom call to talk for 20-30 minutes to see how we get on. This is a chance to ask me questions and outline your reasons for counselling.
If we decide to proceed, then an assessment session at the normal rate will follow. This will involve a few more in-depth questions, gathering some information, and signing the contract.
Six Initial Sessions
Initial Chat & Assessment
Initial Chat & Assessment
I offer short and long term therapy, but the first six weeks are often a good indicator of how we will find it working together.
Therefore, although we will ongoingly check the counselling process is helpful and appropriate for you, and you can leave at any time, six sessions is a good initial amount to get a grasp of what your needs are and to consider whether longer-term counselling might be appropriate.
Ongoing Sessions
Initial Chat & Assessment
What might sessions include?
Often the reasons that bring people to counselling are more complex than can be resolved in just six sessions and so sessions can be extended on a long term basis, with no specified end date.
This kind of working together can be hugely rewarding, journeying together to untangle and understand various strands of life and resolving past trauma.
What might sessions include?
What might sessions include?
What might sessions include?
Although a lot of counselling involves talking, there are also helpful exercises and interventions that can aid the process - we can decide together what might be helpful as we proceed.
For instance, sessions might incude:
- creative exercises
- breathing exercises
- visualisation exercises
- psychoeducational input etc.
What might you discover?
What might sessions include?
What might you discover?
Counselling promotes self-discovery and self-awareness. As you better understand how your thoughts, feelings, longings, reactions, motivations, behaviour, and relationships weave together, change occurs.
For instance, you might discover:
- new strategies for relating/communicating
- how to regulate/tolerate feelings better
- how your past influences your present day
- more about your inner world
- the underlying causes for problem areas
What might result?
What might sessions include?
What might you discover?
Sometimes the reason a client initially attends counselling ends up not being the main thing addressed, because their process evolves over time. Ultimately change and an increasing ability to handle life is the aim.
You might find:
- things get harder before they get better
(this is a normal experience for many)
- there are some quick fixes, but other
aspects of transformation emerge slowly.
- there are moments of celebration -
the effort involved in counselling pays off!