Psychotherapy and Counselling
Psychotherapy and counselling are both talking therapies that offer a safe, confidential space to explore whatever is troubling you. While they share many similarities, they differ in the depth and focus of the work.
Counselling is often shorter term and focuses on helping you make sense of your current difficulties, gain greater clarity, and find constructive ways of moving forward.
Psychotherapy is typically a deeper and longer-term process. It offers the opportunity to explore how past experiences and unconscious patterns may be influencing your present thoughts, feelings, behaviours, and relationships. By developing a deeper understanding of yourself, psychotherapy can support meaningful and lasting change.
Sessions are usually held weekly and can be offered on either a short-term or longer-term basis, depending on your individual needs and goals. We will discuss what feels most appropriate at the beginning of our work together and review this as therapy progresses.
Issues I Can Work With
Anxiety/stress
Depression
Loss
Relationship
Trauma
Bereavement
Addiction
Abuse
Overwhelming emotions
Self worth
Identity
Stuck patterns
The Therapeutic Relationship
Being Seen and Feeling Heard
My approach is to offer you an authentic, attentive and empathetic connection where you feel genuinely seen and heard. I believe emotional health can grow through safe, honest and supportive connection with another person, rather than through facing difficulties alone.
As your story unfolds we will work collaboratively to explore how your experiences and relationships may be influencing your life in unhelpful ways. By developing a greater understanding we can identify new ways of being that feel more helpful, authentic and sustainable.
Exploring and Feeling Together
Together, we can explore practical ways to support you in managing stress, anxiety or periods of depression that may be getting in the way of experiencing and enjoying life in the way you want to.
We may explore ways of regulating your nervous system that can help you manage the impact of trauma, difficult feelings and emotions. At other times, there may be space simply to experience feelings together and make sense of the full range of emotions that arise — from sadness and hurt, to anger, joy and everything in between.
Creating Meaningful Change
Through developing greater self-awareness, self-acceptance and self-compassion, my hope is that our therapeutic work will help you to understand and integrate parts of yourself that may have remained hidden or silent while offering compassion and healing to those parts that have experienced pain and hurt.
In doing so, you can begin to move in a direction that feels right for you and make meaningful and lasting change that is beneficial and helpful in your life.
The First Session
The first session is a mutual assessment session for us both to decide if therapy can be useful and if I am the right therapist for what is needed. It provides an opportunity to share what's bringing you to therapy and what you hope to gain from it. It's a chance for us to see if we feel comfortable talking together, and identify whether what you bring to therapy is a longer-term or shorter-term issue as well as giving you the opportunity to ask any questions.
© Elaine Moore
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