Counselling is now accepted as a form of healing alongside other techniques. It is a process whereby a trained counsellor helps you by purposeful conversation in an understanding atmosphere. The aim of counselling is to give you the opportunity to explore your concerns and feelings, discover what might be the underlying causes and to clarify ways of living more effectively and to move towards a greater sense of well-being.

It seeks to create a helping relationship in which you can express your thoughts and feelings in such a way as to clarify your own situation, to come to terms with some new experience, to see your difficulty more clearly and so to face your problems with less anxiety and tension. It helps you to find your own resources for dealing with difficult situations. Change in any form can be a problem. You may be experiencing an unwelcome change and need to discover how you can adjust to it. Alternatively, you may realise that you yourself want to make particular changes in your life and need to discover how you can bring those about. Counselling can be the opportunity to think the unthinkable and speak the unspeakable without the fear of what others might think.

Family rows, bereavement and loss, leaving home, depression, relationships, abuse, work or unemployment, pregnancy, money, drugs, alcohol, loneliness; these issues can generate painful feelings which can be alleviated through sharing them with a trained counsellor.