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short-term and long-term counselling

Do you feel like your are ready to change your current circumstances and become more empowered? 

Counselling can be very helpful in helping you to find the right direction in your life in accordance with who you are and your values. It can aid you in:

  • improving the relationship with yourself, family, friends and intimate partners
  • understand your past and the impact it has on the ‘here and now’
  • enhance your self-esteem by building a bond with yourself based on kindness and empathy
  • finding new ways to cope with anxiety, depression, mental health issues and many more
  • tapping into to your inner resources to allow fuller and more accomplished life.

The list is not exhaustive, but it is crucial to understand that counselling is not a magic pill or combination of various techniques that can lead to your betterment. Therapy will be successful only, if you commit to it. There are two main ingredients needed for counselling – your hard work and solid plan. Therefore, we start with a flexible and realistic goals to then see your life changing in front of your eyes. I can guide you, suggest new ways of looking at things, provide you with innovative coping skills, but I am not able to do the work for you. Are you ready? Then buckle up – it is time for one exciting journey, which has potential to change your life forever.

I offer free 15-minutes consultation, so that you can make an informed decision about the therapeutic work. No strings attached – just a quick chat.

Last, but not least I also speak Polish:)

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F.A.Q.

Things you might want to know before you start  your counselling journey.

I am specialising in trauma and have trained as a person-Centred Counsellor with Middlesex University in London. I also have MA in English Philology gained with Warsaw University in Poland. As a counsellor you need to belong to a professional body and adhere to their ethical standards. I am fully insured, registered member of BACP. Having regular supervision for both my Private Practice as well as the charity I am working with allows the highest standards of my profession.

I offer free 20-minutes consultation to allow you to present your issues and decide whether I am the right counsellor to meet your current needs. We will usually meet on a weekly basis, but I also offer fortnightly and monthly sessions. Each meeting takes 50-minutes and it costs £40. I do offer concessions to those of you struggling financially. Currently I am working online (Zoom) and on the phone. 

Yes, there is a multitude of clinical research, which proves that counselling can improve your life:

  • different psychological therapies can assist people in recovering from both mental and physical illnesses (BACP, 2018);
  • counselling and psychotherapy advocate good health and wellbeing, therefore supporting prevention of mental illness (BACP, 2018);
  • there is evidence that psychological therapies can be efficient while treating: anxiety and depression, drug misuse, eating disorders and psychosis/schizophrenia (BACP, 2018).

Please consider the following before embarking on your therapeutic journey:

  • have a rough idea about what would you like to explore in therapy;

  • the counsellor have the right qualifications and/or experience in the area, which you want to talk about such as anxiety or trauma;

  • know your expectations and needs, ask the counsellor whether he/she can meet these.

What a counsellor should provide you with:

  • a solid therapeutic relationship

  • accept you for who you are and don’t judge your thoughts, feelings and behaviours

  • help you to understand yourself and your world as well as make sense of what causing your distress

  • a safe space for you to talk about your emotions and thoughts and how these affect you and people around you.

What a counsellor shouldn’t do:

  • judge you

  • make promises he/she can’t keep

  • give you advice or/and make decisions for you

  • talk about his/her problems

  • take advantage of you at any given time and in any way.

  • you can ask your counsellor about confidentiality and its limitations

  • make sure you know how to pay, when/where you meet with your counsellor and for how long

  • you have a right to know how the therapist will store your records and whether you can access these at any given time

  • what to do if therapy is not working for you

  • sign a contract/counselling agreement before starting therapy or ask for it, if it was not offered.