05/08/2025
IT'S HARD to imagine what to expect exactly, especially without prior experience. Let’s see some examples of counselling work with me specifically:
- Prioritise: often, when we feel overwhelmed, there are a number of topics / areas / feelings - let’s break them down, take one at a time.
- Filter: Separate bigger issues or long-term problems from what we can deal with today. Start with what we can focus on in the present to make a difference and then look at broader principles, or patterns, for the future.
- Look at attitudes: how do I see personal responsibility? Am I taking responsibility for other people or do I avoid responsibility? Do I know my boundaries?
What is my relationship to myself? How does it differ from my relationship to other people? How do I communicate with myself and with others?
- Reprogram: look at what I am telling myself - blame, labels, guilt, judgements. We will redefine those thoughts to include self-empathy, self-awareness, understanding of personal needs, conflicting needs or mixed feelings, and ways to balance and/or reconcile those.
- Investigate: What are the sources of my anxiety or low mood? Did I always have those beliefs / attitudes / feelings? How do I process difficult / traumatic experiences? How do I move on?
- Recharge: How do I care for myself? What self-care is best for me?y
