Are you ready for CHANGE?
Talking with professional therapists can really be useful if you are worried about something,
cannot understand why you feel a certain way, cannot get motivated to achieve your desired goals or if you have strong unwanted
feelings about something. There are many, many issues that counselling, CBT and coaching help with, and there are some things that we have to go through by sitting with a future focused professional, someone
separate who listens effectively, without judging or jumping to conclusions
and offers appropriate and helpful feedback, and works ‘on your team’ to get you where you want to be.
Most people who come to the therapies want to change something in their
lives.
Counselling and Psychotherapy are well evidenced to be helpful for uncovering the roots of upsetting issues, and helping clients to make change in their lives. CBT therapists help you recognise unhelpful and mostly habitual patterns of thinking and how they came about, and offers the support and techniques needed to change them. CBT oriented Coaching is not the same as psychotherapy, the crossovers are many,
and when helping gain control over anxiety, low mood, OCD or other
such difficulties, CBT and coaching provide the perfect balanced response for most people, as these conditions
have formulaic models of working. Psycho-education combined with really helpful techniques with which to work toward
goals are key to progress and positive outcomes. As a counsellor and coach with over 20 years experience as a
Psychotherapist, I can help you overcome the obstacles to change in your life.
OCD and Pure O (the awful unwanted intrusive thoughts version) are horrific disorders to live with and coaching is extremely suited to helping
clients overcome them and meeting your anxiety free goals.
Coaching
couples for better relationships has many advantages too over couple therapy,
where couples usually feel their relationship needs ‘fixing’. Coaching identifies difficulties and works
toward clearer communication and future oriented positive outcomes that matter
to you.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and CBT oriented coaching identify and help you change
destructive or unhelpful ways of thinking about things. The trouble is,
we get used to thinking a certain way, and the habit is not only hard to
break, but we don’t even know that we are doing it until someone listens and
talks it through with us, offering different insights. So there is a
psycho-educational part to CBT and coaching, where we sometimes offer techniques and
tips - but importantly, do not tell you what to do. Therapists facilitate insight
into habits and thinking styles that have evolved over long periods, that
control what you think you can do or not do.
Sooooo ... the other thing about embracing change is that it is bit
like giving up smoking. You have to want change or it just will not
happen. Oh... and changing means that things will be different.
Obvious I know, but, well, sometimes we forget!
If you really want
change, and are prepared to take on what is offered, whilst there are no
guarantees of course, very often the goals of therapy or specific focused coaching that have been
identified at the outset can be worked on extremely
positively, with noticeable improvements in a short time. Even simply
talking about your worries has been proven to be helpful. We are experienced and professional and will always be gentle, empathic, and
completely honest with you whilst working together with you - on your team - challenging you sometimes and offering you accountability.
The journey to wellness should mostly be a helpful, positive, and
supportive experience that will help you see your issues in a different way,
and hopefully empower you to make different decisions about things.
Choosing which approach to take can be a difficult decision
indeed (mostly because they have loads of unintelligible letters after their
names) so have a good look at our helpful page, 'so how do I
choose what to do tho...'. Hopefully it will make much more sense of
things.
