Counselling provides people with the opportunity to explore and discuss personal issues that are preventing them from leading fulfilling or enjoyable lives.
Most of us at some point in our life will have a time when we feel that we are struggling with emotional problems. These may include relationship difficulties, depression, problems with our relationship to food, repeating unhelpful self-destructive patterns, struggling with changes in our working lives, loss and bereavement or more general feelings of being stuck or unfulfilled. Counselling or psychotherapy can help with these and many other distressing problems. Counselling is not advice giving but enables people to understand why they have got to their current position, find ways forward and explore aspects of themselves that may be hidden from others.
There are many similarities between counselling and psychotherapy. In psychotherapy you would usually explore issues in greater depth and there may be more consideration of childhood experiences and how they may impact on you now. People coming for therapy occasionally find it helpful to come 2-3 times a week for a while but this is not essential. We would talk at the assessment session about which way of working would be most helpful.
Sessions are weekly, usually at the same time each week and last for 50 minutes. The length of time someone has counselling or therapy is very individual it may be anything from 6 weeks to several years. It depends on a whole range of issues and does not have to be decided at the first session and is something that would be discussed and reviewed.
Before we agree to work together we will meet for an assessment session as it is important that you feel comfortable with your therapist and that they think they will be able to support you. At this session like to find out quite a lot about you – (a kind of mini-autobiography) the good and less positive things about your life so far. It is a time for you to think about what you are hoping for in coming to see a therapist and for the therapist to hear about the particular things that are troubling you now. There will be time for you to ask any questions you may have about how we work and counselling and psychotherapy in general.
If you are feeling that you are getting nowhere or not making the progress you had hoped for it is important that you let me know so that we can explore this together. We may need to review what you are wanting from therapy. It is also quite common when having counselling or therapy to feel stuck or a bit more upset at times. If you are thinking about stopping your sessions it is important that we talk about this.
If you are feeling that you are getting nowhere or not making the progress you had hoped for it is important that you let me know so that we can explore this together. We may need to review what you are wanting from therapy. It is also quite common when having counselling or therapy to feel stuck or a bit more upset at times. If you are thinking about stopping your sessions it is important that we talk about this.
Counselling provides a safe, secure space for you to work on your personal difficulties. As BACP members we are bound by a code of ethics and confidentiality agreement. All counsellors are required to be in professional supervision and it is only in supervision that your counsellor would talk to someone else about their work with you.
Sessions in Poole are £45.00 for and individual and £65.00 for a couple and £40.00 for an individual and £60.00 for a couple.
Fees for supervision are £40.00 for unaccredited/unqualified counsellors and £45.00 for BACP accredited and qualified counsellors.
Michael can be contacted on 07813 919101
Ruth can be contacted on 01929 422687, if not in please leave a message.
Ruth can also be contacted by email
Ruth or Michael will have a brief conversation with you on the phone to find out a little about why you are wanting to have counselling have and will arrange an assessment session. You will be sent a letter confirming the appointment with details of how to find us and a map.
In the, we hope, unlikely event of you wishing to make a complaint, both Ruth and Michael are subject to a complaints procedure with their respective professional bodies.
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