Anxiety / Bereavement / Confidence / Depression /
Family / Marriage / PTSD / Relationships
Counselling sessions will lead to a better, deeper knowledge and understanding - helping you build a happier life for yourself and those you love.
ANXIETY COUNSELLING
Anxiety Counselling: Aiming to reduce symptoms and improve overall well-being.
Believe it or not, feeling anxious at times is a perfectly normal part of the human experience. However, once you gain understanding of the experiences that trigger anxiety, you can take control and let go of its grip on your life.
By gaining insight into the experiences that trigger your anxiety, you empower yourself to confront and manage these triggers effectively. Through counselling, you can develop strategies to navigate these situations with confidence and ease.
Letting Go and Moving Forward - With the support of counselling, you can learn to release the grip of anxiety on your life. By understanding its root causes and learning coping mechanisms, you can embrace a sense of control and move forward with confidence.
Anxiety is a natural part of life, but it doesn't have to control you. With understanding and support, you can take control of your anxiety and embrace a life filled with confidence and peace.
How Anxiety Counselling Can Help
Open Communication: Talk openly about your feelings and process negative thoughts in a safe and supportive environment.
Understanding Feelings: Explore and understand your reactions and emotions, gaining insights into the sources of your anxiety.
Developing Strategies: Learn practical strategies and coping mechanisms to manage anxiety and reduce its impact on your daily life.
Building Confidence: Work towards overcoming your anxiety, so you feel more confident and in control of your life.
Take the First Step
You don't have to face anxiety alone. With professional guidance, you can understand your anxiety and develop the skills needed to manage it effectively. Contact Diana today to schedule a session and begin your journey towards a calmer, more confident you.
BEREAVEMENT COUNSELLING
Bereavement Counselling: Navigating the uncharted waters of loss.
The experience of bereavement is very much like setting sail in completely uncharted waters. None of us can predict how we will feel or behave. Counselling can help guide us through the maelstrom of emotions. It is a journey and it’s important to allow time so we may arrive safe into calmer waters.
We also experience feelings of bereavement through a life changing illness, job loss, relationship breakdown or financial crisis.
Symptoms are shock, numbness, a feeling of being in limbo, or disconnected from others. Feeling incredibly sad, exhausted, frequently sobbing, feeling anger towards the person you have lost, or the reason for their death are also part of the bereavement process. Guilt – and what if’s about things we did or didn’t say, did or didn’t do is another part of the process of grieving.
Counselling is there to help support and reassure you as well as helping you reach acceptance so you can move on with your life.
CONFIDENCE COUNSELLING
Confidence Counselling: The foundation for personal growth and professional success.
The Importance of Building Confidence in Today’s World
In the world we live in, building and maintaining confidence in yourself has become an invaluable skill. Confidence isn’t just a fleeting feeling of self-assuredness; it’s the foundation for personal growth and professional success.
Confidence matters now more than ever:
Embracing Opportunities: Whether starting something new or pursuing a lifelong passion, confidence gives us the courage to make the most of everything we do.
Resilience: If we never made a mistake, we’d never learn. Many great discoveries have happened because of a “mistake”. Self-belief helps us bounce back and learn, adapt and persevere, and ultimately succeed!
Mental and Emotional Well-being: Modern life can be stressful, but self-confidence helps protect against stress and anxiety, helping us cope more effectively.
Career Advisement: Confidence sets you apart. It’s the quality that helps you excel in interviews, present your ideas persuasively, and take on leadership roles.
Positive Self-Image: It’s intimately tied to self-esteem and self-worth. When we grow in confidence, we see ourselves in a positive light; it radiates outwards, influencing how others see and interact with us.
Inspiring Others: Confidence is contagious. We can inspire those around us to believe in themselves, becoming a source of motivation and creating a ripple effect of empowerment.
DEPRESSION COUNSELLING
Depression Counselling: Struggling with depression? Counselling can help you take back control.
Counselling sessions help you have a deeper knowledge and understanding of yourself and to build a happier life for you and those you love.
Our sessions focus on learning more about yourself and developing new skills, so you feel in control, rather than controlled by people and events.
Counselling enables you to view your life and events logically, so you gain clear understanding of how and why you are. There is always a reason why you feel depressed or anxious, lack confidence, struggle We all face traumas and difficult times in our lives. It’s part of being human.
Counselling helps you approach your problems without bias, helps you look at things in sharper focus with a calm and clear mind.
FAMILY COUNSELLING
Family Counselling: Restoring happiness and balance to your most important relationships.
Understanding the Importance of Relationships
Often too little attention is paid to emotional needs, both our own, and others. Most of us try very hard to please, but usually we are adopting/copying the relationship habits of parents/ siblings/teachers/peers. This can lead to us trying to please others whilst not pleasing ourselves.
Identifying and Expressing Personal and Mutual Needs
So – the first step now you are an adult, is to pause and consider “what do I need?” This doesn’t mean you will be able to have your own way, but it does mean you can acknowledge and express your needs. Equally this means you will ensure you acknowledge, understand and listen to others' needs.
Navigating Differences and Building Tolerance in Relationships
The second step is once you have heard and understood the needs of those close to you, and feel this has been reciprocated, you can then work together, resulting in a more harmonious life, thus moving to the third step. When we begin a relationship with a partner it is important to consider the similarities and differences in our upbringing. Although there may be similarities, no two families operate in the exact same way. Some people struggle with differences, even minute ones, becoming critical, even controlling about the other’s behaviour/habits, which will eat away at any relationship.
The most important factor in any family is the ability to compromise, to work together, to be united. In order to achieve this we need to be open and honest to work through any differences compassionately ensuring satisfactory outcomes, rather than fighting one another. Children thrive in a family where everyone has a voice and feels heard. It’s okay for children to know parents may disagree, but to know their parents will find a way to resolve difficulties in a loving way. This gives children confidence, so they don’t feel threatened by disagreement, but will find a way to connect, to resolve and move forward, which ensures they will grow to be confident and happy adults.
So you can see that tolerance and understanding are vital for a relationship to flourish.
MARRIAGE COUNSELLING
Marriage Counselling offers an opportunity to revitalise your relationship. Do you remember those early days when you shared your hopes and dreams, when you couldn’t wait to be together, when you spent hours making love? As a relationship progresses all too often we stop sharing and caring. Sometimes we can be resentful of our partner, as the old saying goes “you always hurt the one you love”, instead of sharing thoughts and feelings in the way we did in the early days, we separate, getting lost in our own thoughts and feelings. We stop sharing anxieties of work, money, health, etc. We get grumpy instead telling our partner what is upsetting us and asking for help and advice.
Trying to juggle children/work/home puts a strain on couples too in modern life where both partners are working. Counselling helps you adjust your work/life balance and improve your relationships with one another, making for a happy family life.
Marriage Counselling: Revitalise your relationship and reconnect with your partner.
PTSD COUNSELLING
PTSD Counselling: Helping you manage trauma symptoms and improve your quality of life.
Post-traumatic stress disorder counselling is a form of therapy that helps individuals who have experienced trauma to manage their symptoms and improve their quality of life.
Why is PTSD Counselling important?
If left untreated PTSD may lead to suicide. PTSD is often the result of a near-death experience, or trauma which was so terrifying that the sufferer experiences reliving the traumatic event as though it is happening now, again and again and again. The symptoms of PTSD are hugely distressing and may involve every sense being affected, smell, taste, touch, sight, re-living their traumatic incident. The diagnosis of PTSD can help you to understand what is happening.
How can PTSD Counselling help?
PTSD treatment helps normalise the abnormal, allowing people with PTSD to express, in their own words, what they are feeling and thinking while being supported by their counsellor, never judged. The effects of PTSD gradually reduce as their sessions offer space and safety to explore feelings they have been unable to express all the while gaining positive feedback, acknowledgement and acceptance from the counsellor. It’s knowing that “It’s okay to feel this way”, “Your feelings and reactions were normal, given the abnormality of the situation you faced”. Often there’s enormous guilt associated with simply surviving, whilst others did not.
RELATIONSHIP COUNSELLING
Relationship Counselling: Learn to truly listen and understand each other’s feelings.
Relationship counselling helps you understand/improve/heal your relationships with yourself and or others. Whether it is your relationship with your partner, your child, friends or work, counselling offers the opportunity to learn how to be happy, confident and self-assured in your relationships.
Types of relationship issues
Communication is the most common presenting problem in relationship counselling.
Trust is another common issue, once trust is broken it can be very difficult to rebuild, but counselling can help enormously. Trust is often linked with infidelity or a partner indulging in unsafe behaviour such as affairs/gambling/alcohol/drug use.
Trust issues arising from childhood, parents splitting, unreliable & unpredictable parenting, negatively affect our relationship expectations.
Couples therapy vs individual therapy
When working with couples I often suggest one or two individual (one to one) sessions, particularly when there are important issues from the past which are not of this relationship, but affect it. Individual therapy concentrates on you as an individual, your self-perception, desires and goals in life.