What kind of counsellor are you?
I am a Registered Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and work within their Ethical Framework for the Counselling Professions. The framework informs my practice and provides us both with guidelines for safe and effective best practice.
I work within a person-centred modality – basically, this means that the client and counsellor work in a collaborative way. You are the expert on you, and set your own goals and pace of our sessions. As we establish a therapeutic relationship, my role is to help you focus and reflect on the issues you bring in – not to tell you what to do! Sometimes, when we are feeling overwhelmed, we can lose perspective and develop “blind spots” in our perception. Counselling can help you get a full 360 degree view, which can enable you to see options that may not have been visible to you before.