Frequently asked questions

There is no typical counseling session. Your counselor will be highly trained in listening and reflecting and provides a safe environment in which to explore your issues. With most types of counseling you are free to discuss what you wish, from everyday events, dilemmas, feelings, and thoughts, to regrets, aspirations, memories and dreams.

Clients come to us with wide-ranging problems, including:

• Anxiety (generalized anxiety problems, panic attacks, agoraphobia, Social anxiety, claustrophobia)
• Workplace issues (stress, work-life imbalances)
• Relationship issues (breakups, divorce, affairs, choosing inappropriate partners, loneliness, life adjustments, marital problems, arguments, jealousy, wedding and premarital issues)
• Depression (including suicidal thoughts, low mood, social withdrawal)
• Low self-esteem and lack of confidence
• Sexual problems and deviances (impotence, internet/pornography/sex addiction, loss of desire, infertility)
• Trauma (including post-traumatic stress disorder from accidents, rape and other attacks/incidents)
• Obsessive-compulsive disorder
• Eating problems (including bulimia, binge eating, negative body image)
• Phobias and fears
• Addiction and substance misuse
• Abuse (including physical, verbal, and sexual abuse)
• Bereavement/grief/loss.

To book an initial session with us, you can phone us. Our team of experienced professionals will help you with your issue. In the event we feel that you would benefit from a different counseling approach, we will normally recommend another specialist for you to consider.

The number of sessions you will need will depend on your unique circumstances and needs. However, six sessions are often recommended.

Keep in mind that once you start sessions, new issues and angles can arise you were not aware existed that you then want to explore. It is of course possible to also see improvement faster than you expected.

Generally your first session will be used as an assessment rather than for treatment. This allows you to identify your issues as you see them, and for your therapist to start to gain an idea of what your needs are. So unfortunately, having just one session is unlikely to have any lasting benefit for you.

Yes, counseling sessions are strictly confidential. The exception would be if you were to pose a danger to yourself or others, abuse to children or vulnerable adults, acts of terrorism and by the order of law, in which case the relevant parties would be notified. 

However, even in such circumstances only relevant and limited information will be disclosed.