Counselling is different from other kinds of support. Counselling aims to facilitate self-awareness, understanding, healing without fear of bias, judgement, or attempt to tell you what to do. Essentially, the counsellor’s task is to bring knowledge from theory, a trained ear making them a skilled listener to you and your problems, in order to help you to discover a more about yourself.
In this experience, those that undergo therapy may experience more awareness of their strengths, weaknesses, feelings, thoughts, beliefs, values, behaviour, behaviour of others and priorities. In bringing this to the forefront of therapy, the therapist can support you explore your own solutions and carry out your own resolutions. Due to the nature of what comes up for some people, some experiences and topics are quite sensitive. However if we are willing to take the risk and embark on, receiving counselling and reap the benefits, it will provide deeper understanding of ourselves and enriches our lives with more meaning.
It is a rewarding personal experience made through collaboration which requires commitment of time and effort on both sides.