Counselling
Counselling can help you understand, manage and overcome difficult feelings, circumstances or problems in your life. This might require exploration of past and present factors and influences that have led you to this particular point in your life and that are having a negative impact on your emotional, physical and mental wellbeing. The aim is to free you from these negative influences and enable you to live a richer, more satisfying and joyous life.
Counselling, psychological therapy, psychotherapy (not to be confused with psychoanalysis) or talk-therapy are often used as interchangeable terms, which can be confusing for many people. However, they all these terms refer to services that help people deal with problems that can derail them in life and create psychological problems.
Some people may seek assistance because of difficulties with depression, anger or anxiety. Others may want help with a long-standing problem or condition that is interfering with their lives or physical health. Often people get counselling for short-term transitional problems they want help navigating, such as feeling overwhelmed by a new job, grieving the death of a family member, loss of a job or a relationship difficulties.
Psychotherapy can also help people learn to cope with stressful situations, overcome addictions, manage their chronic illnesses and break past the barriers that keep them from reaching their goals.