What is counselling?

Counselling is a service, which offers the opportunity to discuss thoughts and feelings on matters of concern. People seek counselling forwide variety of reasons. Sometimes they have problems, which have become unmanageable, while other times they have feelings of dissatisfaction or unhappiness in life. Counselling can help reach a new perspective or regain the confidence that for one reason or another has become lost.

What happens in counselling?

Counselling is not the same as giving advice. A counsellor seeks to help you to focus on, and understand more clearly, issues that concern you. By respecting your own values, choices, and lifestyle, the counsellor can work together with you, towards making choices or changes that are right for you. Counselling may be concerned with developmental issues, addressing and resolving personal insight and knowledge, working through feelings of inner conflict or improving relationships with others. The overall aim of counselling is to provide an opportunity to work towards a way that is more satisfying and resourceful. The counsellor's role is to facilitate the work in a way, which respects the values, personal resources, and capacity for choice within the person's cultural context.