One on One

How Does One-on-One Counselling Work?

Counselling is about talking to someone who can help you explore and understand your caring situation and the emotions you are experiencing. Seeing a counsellor is not a sign that you are ‘not coping’ or ‘a failure’. It is a way to help support and care for you. Counselling can focus on areas such as:

• managing stress
• emotional support
• practical problem-solving techniques
• coping skills
• health and wellbeing
• transition issues

Sometimes the need to ‘talk it over’ is clear. At other times, you may feel confused, guilty or embarrassed about what you need to talk about. Feelings such as anger or resentment may arise in your caring situation. These feelings are normal. Finding time to have counselling can be challenging, but is well worth the effort. One of the first steps in caring for you is to make time to get some of

I am located at:

84 Canberra Crescent
Burrill Lake
NSW 2539 Australia

Face-to-face Counselling

Counselling takes place when a counsellor sees a client in a private and confidential setting to explore a difficulty the client is having, distress they may be experiencing or perhaps their dissatisfaction with life, or loss of a sense of direction and purpose.

By listening attentively and patiently the counsellor can begin to perceive the difficulties from the client's point of view and can help them to see things more clearly, possibly from a different perspective. Counselling is a way of enabling choice or change or of reducing confusion. It does not involve giving advice or directing a client to take a particular course of action. Counsellors do not judge or exploit their clients in any way. In the counselling sessions the client can explore various aspects of their life and feelings, talking about them freely and openly in a way that is rarely possible with friends or family. Bottled up feelings such as anger, anxiety, grief and embarrassment can become very intense and counselling offers an opportunity to explore them, with the possibility of making them easier to understand. The counsellor will encourage the expression of feelings and as a result of their training will be able to accept and reflect the client's problems without becoming burdened by them. The counsellor may help the client to examine in detail the behaviour or situations which are proving troublesome and to find an area where it would be possible to initiate some change as a start. The counsellor may help the client to look at the options open to them and help them to decide the best for them.