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Sometimes, when we are feeling
emotionally distressed; or experiencing psychological turmoil; or are
struggling with a dilemma that you are finding difficult to resolve for
yourself, or just plan fed-up, then why not take time-out of your busy schedule
to speak with me at:
We have a wide range of
experience of working with different people of different ages, from a variety
of different backgrounds, and this proves invaluable in helping and supporting
people to work through whatever is giving rise to their emotional distress.
Counselling can help you by:
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Offering a supportive and caring relationship in
which you can feel safe and secure enough to explore any issue you might bring
at your own pace;
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Accepting whatever you might bring to the
counselling session without judgement or prejudice;
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Helping and supporting you to see your difficulties
more objectively;
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Helping and supporting you to express your feelings
and come to terms with new or past experiences;
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Being a constructive part of an evolving process
whereby unwanted feelings can be changed;
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Helping to build self esteem, and enabling you to
take greater control over your life;
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Helping to improve communication in an assertive
way; as opposed to an aggressive or confrontational way;
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Helping you to become more aware of the
possibilities and the limitations of our existence, and set more realistic
goals.
Counselling and psychotherapy is
one way of dealing constructive with your experience of anxiety/stress,
depression; abusive relationships; addiction; discrimination, identity issues
or personality issues, then I may be able to help. If I can’t, then I will help
you find someone else who may be able to help you.
What
is counselling and psychotherapy?
Counselling and psychotherapy is
a process of human interaction. It is an interaction between two or more
people, where the primary purpose is to understand each other through
clarification and description of your everyday life. It may well be that there
is a secondary outcome, and that this may be something that you and counsellor
have identified as something that you want to get out of counselling.
Counselling may be a short process or a long process, you get to decide with
your counsellor just how long that process with be. The content of that process
will be categorised, and priorities outlined before you start. The counsellor
should tell you have he would prefer things to proceed; and offer you the
client the opportunity to say whether or not the help and support that is being
offered, is something that you want to invest in.
What
is the difference between counselling and psychotherapy?
Well I not sure there is a lot
of difference; except may be for the length of training that psychotherapists
undertake, and the price people are prepared to pay a psychotherapist as opposed
to a counsellor. In any case, client have told me over the years that they
are more interested in meeting a counsellor or psychotherapist who has experience
of dealing with whatever the issue/problem at hand. Others how want to be
assured that practitioner has the relevant qualifications and accreditations
before they part with their money, and you can’t blame them for that either.
I think I would be one of the latter in that I would want to know something
about what I will be getting for my money before I part with it, and different
people have different preferences I suppose. I think if you happy with the
practitioner, then you tend to feel as if your getting value for money whatever
the cost.
I have broad of knowledge of
most counselling and psychotherapeutic approaches, but tend towards the more
Existential of these approaches. On reflection of my training to date, I have
found in necessary to work within a model that seeks to combine ‘Existential
Philosophy and Practice’, with that of ‘Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT)’. I
believe that having this flexibility allows me to find away of working with
individual people that is individualistic, and personal. This integrative model
or ‘Existential CBT Model’ allows me
to relate the client’s own sedimentations of thought, feeling, and
actions-in-the-world within the ‘Antecedent, Behaviour, and Consequences’
framework of CBT. I find that this model allows me the freedom to accept the
information as presented to me by clients, and analyse it without being too
Eurocentric in my approach.
The information inherent in the
client’s stories will come from each encounter with the client, and reflects
his/her ways of being-in-the-world in an explorative and descriptive fashion,
(i.e., phenomenologically). Together, the Client and the counsellor are
committed to the practice of living, and this is achieved through sharing
views, opinions and beliefs about being in the world. Anxiety, Loneliness,
anger and despair are just a few of feelings that we all struggle with within
the context of our everyday lives, and the work that takes place during therapy
will focus out seeking authenticity in relation through self examination,
reflection and critical thinking. Our
time will be taken up with the struggle. Together we will identify the possible
interrelatedness between; and within, each particular event/situation with
respect to concomitant beliefs/thoughts and subsequent emotions and actions.
Your experiences will provide the contextual framework within which
exploration, clarification, description, and understanding can take place.
In the process, we get to ‘know’
something of the way you, the client, has applied him/herself within the
context of his/her everyday life, and hence, is likely to apply his/herself in
the future. It is hoped that, the client then grasps the opportunity to choose
‘how’ s/he will apply himself in his/her future projects, differently.
To
find whether individual counselling and psychotherapy is for you, please
contact me for an appointment:
VADM Counselling Services
Current
Interests:
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Deriving Theory to explain
Juxtaposition of ‘race’, powerlessness and social exclusion
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Developing Object Relations
Model of Racial Identity Development
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Developing Existential
Cognitive-Behavioural Model For Counselling and Psychotherapy
Favourite
Links
Ø International Society of Professional Counsellors
Ø Asian and Black Counsellors and
Psychotherapists
Ø Organisations providing support for BME people
Ø Black
and Minority Ethnic Research
Ø Schnauzer
Club of Great Britain
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