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Counselling Services |
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What is Listening to You Counselling?
It is inevitable that at some stage we will all experience feelings of sadness – either triggered by events that are happening (or have happened) in our lives, or because of an imbalance in our body’s chemistry.
Often when we are in despair, the people closest to us are the ones that we find the hardest to talk to – perhaps because we don’t want to worry or burden them, or because we don’t want to appear to be weak. We may fear that discussing our difficulties with family and friends will cause arguments and that our issues would not be heard properly, nor understood.
Talking about your problems in a safe and comfortable counselling setting — openly and without fear of being judged - is without doubt the first step to resolving them.
Listening to You follows the principles of Carl Rogers’ Person-Centred counselling. By providing a comfortable, non-judgemental environment and by demonstrating congruence, empathy and unconditional positive regard, the person seeking help will be guided towards finding their own solutions to their problems.
“In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his or her own personal growth?” – Carl Rogers (Psychotherapist & Founder of Person-Centred Counselling) |
