COUNSELLING
A space to grow, not just to cope
Coming to counselling is a deliberate act of self-leadership. Sometimes this is motivated by the feeling that something is off, but often it means you’re curious about what more could be right. Life may be going well, yet a quiet sense of restlessness or disconnection lingers. Maybe you’re quicker to irritation o sadness than before, or than you would like to be. Maybe something important happened in your life and you need a space to process it. Or maybe you just feel an urge to slow down, to understand yourself better, to become more grounded and intentional.
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Maybe you are not a person, but two friends who want to smoothen their cherished, very long relationship; parent and child looking for a way to connect that feels genuine and comfortable; or three people in a polycule aiming to figure out how to communicate with each other in the most loving, constructive way.
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Whatever the drive may be, these are not necessarily signs of dysfunction; they’re often early signals of growth waiting to happen. Counselling can foster and guide this growth. Some examples of specific things you can achieve with counselling are:
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Rediscovering motivation when life feels repetitive or uninspiring.
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Making sense of frustration or tension that is affecting different areas of your life.
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Understanding and recallibrating who you are in relationships.
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Clarifying what success means to you now, not ten years ago.
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Or simply giving space to the wish to grow, without needing a problem to justify it.
HOW DOES COUNSELLING HELP?
Counselling is about creating a space where you can hear yourself think, feel, and question, away from the noise of expectation. It assumes that people already have within them the resources to grow and adjust; the counsellor’s role is to help them reconnect with that inner compass. Counselling provides:
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Perspective - Through dialogue, counselling builds a space that opens new perspectives, just like the space between two angled mirrors allows us to contemplate the back of our neck. Hearing and sharing your thoughts is not the same as thinking them.
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Relief and privacy - In the sessions you can share in a safer space unrelated to the expectations and judgements of daily life and have somebody truly listen.
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Neutrality - What you bring up will be met with a balanced, nonjudgmental attitude that may be hard to find in your context or, sometimes, even within yourself.
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Methodology - You will talk to a trained professional that follows specific, well-established methods to explore and reflect on what you bring up so that the session has the best chances of being useful to you.
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Structure - Having regular counselling sessions creates a structure that ensures you don't avoid addressing important but complex or uncomfortable matters and at the same time makes it possible not let them take over your mind the rest of the time when you are not in counselling.
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If you think counselling could be something for you, but are still unsure, we encourage you to book a free consultation with us and tell us about your situation. We will be able to tell you whether we can help. If you are unsure whether you need counselling or psychotherapy, you can ask us in the consultation as well.
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