Counselling
is a 'listening ear', it is absolutely confidential and non judgemental. A counsellor will
help you to talk out your difficulties and find out what is troubling you. They will help
you to help yourself. During a discussion on the first appointment the counsellor
will make an assessment of the concerns you wish to talk about, it is at this stage that
you may decide to enter into a therapeutic contract.
Who
Can Benefit ?
Individual therapy is offered for:
- Workplace
Stress
- Bereavement/Grief/Loss
- Post
Traumatic Stress and Debriefing
- Mind,
Mood and Appetite
- Loss
of sleep/anxieties
- Exam/studying
anxiety
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Group therapy is offered
for:
- Workplace Stress
- Bereavement/Grief/Loss
- General Anxiety and Stress
- Assertiveness
- Addictions/Stress
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How
Counselling Will Help ?
Being
able to talk to a counsellor is sometimes easier than talking to close friends or family.
By talking and getting problems off your chest, this will enable you to look at daily life
in a different way, instead of being unable to face things. A programme is drawn up
consisting of some or all of the elements in the following list:
Understanding the nature of stress and stress management training.
Understanding the need to assess their levels of stress.
Understanding stress risk and how to rate this.
Recording and assessment of outcome.
Using relaxation logs for measuring their tension and relaxation.
The nature of muscular tension and muscular relaxation.
Understanding your own strengths and weaknesses in coping with stress.
Aiming for goals and changes.
Learning muscular relaxation training.
Work-related stress.
Understanding your own personality(A/B) and the risk of illness.
Re-thinking your lifestyle.
Stress and negative thinking patterns.
Challenging negative thinking.
Mental relaxation.
Discovering negative thought patterns and using the stress thought log.
Issues of inequality - race, culture and stress, gender and stress.
Learning to think more positively.
Diet and exercise in stress management.
Assertiveness training as a treatment for stress.
The relationship between stress and addictions.
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© Lynda Spain 2001-2008.
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