Counselling
Within my practice I use counselling skills that I have acquired over many years of building my practice in different disciplines. In 1988 I studied a foundation course in Person Centred Counselling. Since then I have built on my counselling skills in my practice as a Research Nurse managing a population of patients with an inherited heart disorder. I then worked for CRUSE the Bereavement Charity for 10 years. During my homeopathy training there was much emphasis on communication skills. In effect I have over a long period of time gained very effective rapport and bringing awareness skills that enable my clients to feel safe, heard and able to process their thought and actions to bring healing.
The models of counselling I connect with most in my practice are:
1. Person centred counselling offers a non-judgemental relationship between client and counsellor, in which the client can explore what they need and want, and how they can achieve their goals.
2. Psychodynamic counselling works by bringing unconscious thoughts and feelings to the surface; there is an emphasis on the influence of the past, and on recurring patterns of relationships.
3. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy works by examining the ways that thought, behaviour, and feeling effect each other, and how different aspects of these can be changed to solve specific problems.
