The Counselling Process
“In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for their own personal growth?”
— Carl R. Rogers
Carl Rogers' quote above, encapsulates the essence of how I work.
For me, every therapeutic process with each individual is deeply unique. The journey that we embark upon together may be challenging at times, and feel like we are encountering hilly terrain with high and low points. But overtime, the discoveries along the way can lead to, what feels like a profoundly life changing outcome.
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The therapeutic journey will be centred from the outset on us working together collaboratively in order to help you overcome your difficulties that you are experiencing in life.
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During our first session, I will ask you some questions about you in order to gain an understanding of your difficulties that have brought you to therapy. This will also help us to set some direction or goals for the counselling process going forward.
It is important at this early stage that you also feel comfortable with me as your therapist. Therefore you will also have the opportunity in confidence to ask any questions that you have about the therapeutic process and what it will involve.
At the end of the initial session you will hopefully have a sense of whether you feel comfortable with me as your counsellor to begin the therapeutic journey.
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Once you decide whether I am the right counsellor for you we will subsequently continue our sessions weekly on a regular day and time. We will work together to explore what is causing you to feel troubled, and/or to gain a better understanding of relational challenges you may be facing in life at this point in time.
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As the counselling progresses I believe it is important to take a review of our work together in order for us to reflect on how things are going and whether you may or may not have any new goals for your therapy.
From a therapeutic perspective we would work relationally towards an ending naturally, where the end would hopefully be a beginning as well, in the sense of you gaining new perspectives and clarity around your life choices.