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What is Counselling?

Sometimes called therapy offers a safe, confidential place to talk about your life and anything that may be confusing, painful or uncomfortable. It allows you to talk with someone who is trained to listen attentively and to help you improve things. It is usually held in a room that is confidential between you and a counsellor/therapist and it tends to last for about 50 minutes to allow you to explore and solve problems you may have. Counselling can help people raise their self-esteem and skills to help deal with their  problems in the past and present. Counselling is to allow you to become autonomous or self-directing and decide what you would like to talk about and to solve what is causing you problems in your life at the moment.  A counsellor can start to see the difficulties from your point of view and help you see things more clearly and maybe form a different perspective.​
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​counselling What is provided?

A Counselling client is able to explore ​feelings such as:


  • Anger​
  • Anxiety
  • Grief
  • Embarrassment
 
As you may find these feelings can be intense and hard for you to understand, a counsellor may encourage the expression of feelings to help the counsellor understand what you are going through, help you to cope better and help you find the reasons why you are experiencing the feelings.

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​What counselling doesn’t Offer:
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  • A safe confidential place.
  • An opportunity to think and talk about yourself, which you often can’t do with family and friends.
  • A place and time which is for you to talk.
  • Someone who listens to your feelings and the effects on you.
  • Acceptance of you and how you are.
  • Help to make changes.
  • A therapeutic relationship.
  • An understanding that it’s not always easy to talk about personal problems and feelings
  • Help to improve your well being
  • Useful information and resources.
 
The counsellor provides all these aspects and reassurance to enable you to trust the counsellor enough to open up about what you feel you want to discuss with them. It is up to you how much you feel you want to discuss and what you want to talk about.

The counsellor may help you see what options are open for you to be able to make changes. 
Counselling is not for giving advice, support, solutions or ideas of how to deal with problems.
 
Counsellors shouldn’t offer a cure. A counsellor doesn’t judge you or make decisions for you. The counsellor should not take advantage of you or inappropriately discuss what you talk about within counselling sessions with other people unless the confidentiality needs to be broken due to the details being discussed.

​Some reasons people go for counselling:

  • The inability to trust oneself and others.​
  • Fear of loving and forming close relationships.
  • Low Self-esteem.
  • Inability to recognise and express feelings of       hostility, anger, rage or hate.
  • Lack of feeling of autonomy.
  • Inability to fully accept one’s sexuality and sexual feelings. Difficulty accepting self as a ‘man’ or ‘women’

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​COunselling Confidentiality and Breaking Confidentiality:

The counsellor will usually form a contract between you and them and this usually includes whatever is said within the counselling sessions, is confidential and the counsellor will not pass any information on to anyone outside the room. There are some exceptions as the counsellor may have to break confidentiality if there is potential for serious risk of harm to yourself or a third party. The counsellor will discuss this with you and ask for your permission to discuss this with an appropriate person or authority. In some cases a counsellor may have to break confidentiality without your permission due to the severity of the subject but the counsellor will also tell you this.
Confidential notes are usually taken which no one other than the counsellor can see, but you are welcome to request to view them if you feel you want to. These are usually destroyed after a reasonable time period after your last session, as in rare occasions a court of law or police may want to view the notes due to criminal matters.
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