How can counselling help

• Supporting you through a particularly traumatic period or helping you to avert a potential crisis.
• Formulating a plan with psychological, social and practical support.
• For some people, suicidal thoughts are a way of coping with their current situation with little intention of following through. For others, it is a likely option or something they have tried in the past.
• Helping you address the emotions and issues that are causing suicidal thoughts whilst working on practical strategies to protect your personal wellbeing.
• Supporting you to consider your choices whilst respecting the limitations of therapy and the right of personal choice.

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• Looking at your relationship to food and exploring why it might be a problem.
• Understanding and challenging the negative thoughts that are causing disordered eating.
• Offering nutritional guidance and coaching around eating behaviours.
• Developing strategies to use if you relapse, so that you more readily return to better patterns.

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• Helping you live with grief whilst working towards accepting your loss. Working through different stages of bereavement.
• supporting you to move on or have a meaningful existence alongside your loss and the feelings arising from it.

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• Working with you on harm reduction and prevention for addictive behaviours such as substance abuse, gaming, physical exercise or work.

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• Helping people who are struggling with their sexuality feel more comfortable in themselves and the way others view them. Helping you have a fulfilling intimate relationship.
• Using concrete techniques to develop a more positive view of yourself as a sexual being.
• Looking at how personal experiences and cultural factors may have influenced your ability to form and enjoy intimate relationships.

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• Helping you cope with and manage your moods and feelings.
• Identifying the triggers and patterns of low mood and examining the underlying causes.
• Supporting you to function day to day even when you are feeling depressed or anxious so that your structure and routine doesn’t collapse.
• Understanding the chemical and physiological impact of stress and anxiety.
• Identifying any lifestyle factors that can be adjusted to improve mood and anxiety levels.
• Discussion around pros and cons of medication.

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• Helping you understand your own patterns of behaviour and the roles you play in relation to others. Enabling you to change the dynamics for a healthier relationship.

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• Acknowledging and developing the aspects of yourself you feel positve about.
• Identifying, celebrating and building on current skills and strengths

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• Helping people feel less overwhelmed by traumatic incidents, including alleviating the symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

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• Helping you better understand and manage acute mental health problems that you are directly or indirectly affected by.
• Support in signposting to other services.

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