Life Skills Counselling

How May Counselling Help?

Counselling can give you:

• the opportunity to talk freely and openly without being judged

• the chance to explore feelings and sensitive issues that are troubling you

• help in understanding the factors that may be contributing to your difficulties

• support in finding your own solutions and new ways of coping.

Anything you share with your counsellor will be treated as confidential unless there are exceptional circumstances.

Do You “Need” Therapy?

In today’s culture, counselling is generally viewed as a last resort, a crisis intervention, something we do when we have exhausted our own resources, or when we are feeling stuck with the same old problem. A therapeutic conversation with a professional counsellor can assist you to find new solutions, gain support, and chart a path through difficult seasons of the journey of life.

There are times along the journey of life, outside of crisis moments, when we have a vague sense that something is not as it should be, a gnawing ache that something is missing, or off kilter. Counselling can help in finding clarity about values and exploring the meaning and purpose of life, or assisting individuals to connect with their passions and creating a life that is “juicy,” and deeply satisfying. In such instances, counselling becomes more like having a coach for the road of life.

Are You Looking For Change? Want To Get Unstuck?

Therapeutic conversations open possibilities for:

• Finding power and choice when problems feel overwhelming.

• Overcoming depression and re- experiencing hope and joy.

• Learning and growing through loss and grief, (including the loss of family pets).

• Liberation from addictive behaviours & substance misuse.

• Finding assertive and healthy ways to respond to the addictive behaviour or substance misuse of someone you love.

• Understanding the meaning behind anger and learning respectful ways to communicate intense emotions.

• Growing safe and meaningful relationships.

• Learning to let go of trying to control others through intimidation or violence and reconnect with behaviours that communicate respect and kindness.

• Keeping yourself and your family safe when responding to abuse or violence of your partner.

• Nurturing intimacy with your partner as a foundation to sexual satisfaction.

• Finding your voice in the midst of crazy making abusive relationships.

• Becoming the parent you really want to be.

• Turning life and family transitions (retirement, critical illness, empty nest) into seasons of discovery.

• Creating a purposeful life and a balanced sense of wellbeing.

• Developing new meaning in life.

• Exploring spirituality, growing faith, and discovering spiritual disciplines.

• The safe telling of “secrets” and stories of pain and suffering, oppression and abuse, and the celebration of stories of resistance and resilience.

 

  

 

Life Skills Counselling Can:

• Give you a better understanding of yourself. You will come to see how past influences shape the ways you think about yourself and others and how you relate to your world.

• Understanding yourself better helps you to understand others better.

• Assist in managing stress and meeting life’s challenges.

• Increase confidence. You'll feel more positive in your life.

• Increase choice and helps provide direction.

• Help you find greater inner resources to manage them.

• Help you to connect to your unique life story, to make sense of the past and to find those experiences that life is drawing you towards. Experiencing your life as a coherent and meaningful story will assist you to find direction, provide you with increased energy and leave you feeling happier and more fulfilled.