Counselling with Chris for Clarity and Perspective
Counselling
What is counselling?
It's the provision of a listening ear, a different perspective on your troubles, a way of discussing what's bothering you and trying to make sense of it. It's about learning more about you and trying to gain insight on how you tick, who you are and what you want from life. It's being able to be honest with yourself without judgement, in a safe space. To work through your feelings, thoughts and behaviours and know yourself better so you can become the best version of yourself.
Bereavement
Losses of any kind are hard to deal with, they knock the stuffing out of us, make us sad, make us question the world and our own place in it. Loss can make us feel unsteady, lost and unsure of ourselves.
Counselling can help to gain clarity, deal with guilt, anger and unfinished business. It can help us move towards acceptance of that loss and start to see a way to live without that person.
Loss isn't just about death either, sometimes it's relationship breakdown, loss of career, loss of health, loss of social standing, even loss of certainty. We grieve for all of these things in similar ways.
Anxiety
Anxiety might seem like a buzz word to many as we seem to hear about it all the time now. But to those people who live with it, it can be debilitating.
It can render us silent even if we have things we want to say. It can stop us from seeing people we love. It can make us isolated, lonely, fearful and unsure. It creates a barrier to living a good life or getting where we want to go.
Counselling can help identify the fears holding you back. It can help to gently push boundaries so you gain the courage to move through the anxiety and out the other side.
Self-Esteem
Critical voices that attack our self-esteem can come from anywhere. They could be critical parents, bullies at school, or an overbearing boss at work. Perhaps you've had a manipulative, controlling or narcissistic partner in the past.
Quite often these external voices get stuck in our heads and we take them on as our own, talking back to us as negative internal thoughts, destroying our self-esteem.
Counselling can help to slowly restore your confidence by challenging those negative beliefs about yourself and help you to recognise your own true voice.
Identity
Any trauma, bereavement or breakdown in relationship can make us doubt ourselves.
Getting a mental health or neurodivergence diagnosis can unsteady us, make us question everything we believed about ourselves or make us feel isolated and angry with the world.
Having a career break or work stress can make us question our choices and abilities. Even having a spiritual experience can unsteady us.
Counselling can help to clarify these feelings and understand your own beliefs. Helping you recognise and accept the real you .
Contact Chris
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