Chiswick Counselling Centre

Counselling with Chiswick Therapy and Counselling Centre

The type of counselling and therapy that we practice is "talking treatment". This involves regular meetings with your counsellor or therapist, who will work with you to find the origins of your difficulties. This, in turn, enables you to alter the patterns of thought and behaviour which you have found troublesome, and it usually also involves changes in the way you perceive and feel about yourself. Meetings are held in private consulting rooms at the Centre, and all information is treated in the strictest of confidence.

The types of difficulties for which talking treatment can be helpful include:

# anxiety
# stress
# phobias
# post traumatic stress disorders
# trauma experienced in childhood
# obsessional/compulsive thoughts/behavior
# grief and bereavement
# low moods
# relationship difficulties
# isolation
# difficult relationships with food
# difficulty controlling feelings
# self-harm
# feelings of pointlessness
# low self-esteem/ difficulties with self-worth
# artistic/creative "blocks"
# work difficulties
# difficulties in decision-making
# unhappiness
# feeling stuck/unfulfilled in life

# Very often, people look for counselling when a crisis is occurring in their lives, and this type of counselling can help to sustain them through the crisis. Since many people will have found themselves repeatedly in similar crises in their lives, it can then proceed to an exploration with the aim of understanding of how the crisis came about, and how similar crises might be averted or dealt with differently in the future.

# People with no particular difficulties in their lives may feel that they want to get to know themselves better, to get to understand more of their internal world, and this type of counselling is also ideally suited to this.