Tag: counsellor
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Private Skype Counselling in English for Expats: Tips and Support for Your Journey
Counselling expats, I’m privileged to be invited to hear stories from the private lives of those who trade comfort and familiarity for the unknown. While the expat experience is more often portrayed as glamorous and exciting, many find the reality of living in a different culture to be lonely and challenging, particularly in the first…
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Sustainable Psychotherapy: What is Eco Friendly Counselling and Where to find a Green Therapist
We are increasingly being encouraged to reduce, reuse and recycle and be mindful of the impact our activities have on the environment. In deciding to make changes to their lives, many people question their own place in consumer culture, the way they are living and their relationships to others. How can talk therapy and counselling…
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Long Term Counselling or Psychotherapy: Is it Effective?
Long term therapy is a collaborative meaning making process with a therapist or counsellor. The effectiveness of the work depends on the relationship that develops in the therapeutic space as well as the openness of the conversation.
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Online Counselling vs Face-To-Face Therapy: Not Better or Worse, Just Different
Online counselling is not better or worse than face-to-face appointments, it is just a different option with its own advantages and benefits. Online counselling is the future of talk therapy and because it is so comfortable, it has the potential to help many people.
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Losing Yourself… And Finding Yourself Again!
Online therapy can provide an alternative to self-help at times when we have lost direction or our sense of self. Recovering from burnout or mid-life crisis in collaboration with a therapist can be easier than finding our identity in isolation.
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Advice or Therapy? Taking a Collaborative Approach with Your Therapist
People are always asking me for advice. I regularly receive requests over email, via my websites and even on Facebook asking me for advice or direction with particular problems or difficulties. Often these requests are for relationship advice, or advice about how to find confidence or how to develop certain ‘communication skills’. It is not…