Alta Counselling Services

29/11/2016

I do stress

    Psychological counselling offers support and guidance when you are going through a tough time.  Through counselling people learn about themselves and how to overcome difficult feelings and situations,  how to be motivated again and to adapt in a new healthy way.

28/11/2016

31/08/2016

Children and teenagers will react differently to trauma and their symptoms may not be the same. Look out for:

Bed wetting
Acting out the scary event during playtime
Being more clingy to mom or dad. A process of Trauma Incident Reduction is very useful in retracing the event, working through it, visualizing how it happened and verbalizing the outcome in a safe environment.

25/08/2016

04/08/2016

The most common causes of divorce :

Lack of commitment, including marrying the wrong person.
Infidelity
Communication issues
Inequality in marriage
Any form of abuse
Financial problems
Unrealistic ideas of the marriage
Therapy can be very helpful to cope with the process of uncoupling. It can be mentally, emotionally and financially very draining. People using therapy to cope with a divorce often benefit as they learn more about themselves and how to think more objectively about the situation.

02/08/2016

Marriage does not always succeed and sometimes it can be a relief to some when it ends. Most of the time it is an extremely stressful event full of insecurity and doubt, even the partner wanting to leave will have a full range of emotions such as anger, guilt and shame. When children are involved the stress will be higher. Divorce guidance and counselling often help people to decide if they should stay or go. Other times it’s to help make the transition from being married to single again.

29/07/2016

Addiction can be divided in to two areas – substance dependence and behavioral addition. Sometimes even a habit can become an addition. The difference between the two is a matter of choice. With habit it’s a choice, with addiction you can’t go without it, or you lose control.

The cause of an addition is generally a combination of physical, mental circumstances and emotional factors.

27/07/2016

Bipolar disorder is different from depression but those who are affected also experience low moods that meet the same level of major depression. The difference is they also have an extreme high of feeling carefree and weightless. There is a long list of signs and symptoms of depression, and not everyone experiences all of them at the same time. The earlier depression is treated the better. It is usually treated by using a combination of counseling and medication.

19/07/2016

There are 5 stages of mourning:

Denial – no it can’t be true, it didn’t happen.
Anger- Why me? Why now? It’s not fair.
Bargaining- If he can come back I’ll go instead.
Depression – Life is not the same, life is not worth living, I don’t want to do things without him/her.
Acceptance – It happened. I understand. I can move on.
Counselling can help you through all of these stages. There is no time frame or limit to these stages and sometimes you jump back and forth between them. I’m here to facilitate you in moving through them.