What counselling is
Counselling is a relationship between client and counsellor where you can be genuinely heard and accepted in a safe, supportive and confidential setting. Exploring whatever is on your mind in a neutral space can help you to develop greater awareness and understanding of yourself which may lead you to make different choices in your life that seem right for you. Sometimes counselling can facilitate you to gain perspective, reflect on your options, or find solutions to a particular problem. It can also help you to find better ways to manage a situation that you cannot change.
Confidentiality
Everything you bring to counselling is strictly confidential. Exceptions to this, as outlined in the BACP code of ethics and in order to comply with current legal obligations, will be explained to you at the initial meeting.
What you can expect from me
The quality of the relationship between client and counsellor is strongly linked to a positive therapeutic outcome in my experience. Research also points to relational factors being a key determinant of therapeutic healing and change, so the relationship I develop with clients lies at the heart of my work. As a Humanistic trained counsellor my approach is client-led which means that you decide what it is you want to look at and what you would like to get from counselling. Then we will approach the work together. I will be fully engaged and listen to you carefully in a respectful, empathic and non-judgemental way.
What counselling is not
Counselling is not about an agenda-ed approach or my self-disclosure of mutual experiences. Nor is it about telling you what to do or advising you in the way that some services are designed to, such as the Citizens Advice Bureau. However I may occasionally signpost other third party resources that I think could be of help or interest to you.
Number of sessions
This will depend on what brings you to counselling at this time and what you hope to gain. Some people like to work with a fixed number of sessions followed by a review while others prefer an open ended approach and may want to take more time to explore underlying issues. You may find it helpful to look at early life experiences and make links with what is happening now. Or you may prefer to focus on the present and your choices and hopes for the future. In all cases we will review how you are experiencing our work together and the therapeutic relationship after six sessions and at similar intervals thereafter. Counselling will always come to an end at some point. I only ask that you give a minimum of two sessions notice to end. We will then discuss this to ensure that the decision is the right one for you at that time and look at how best to draw the work and therapeutic relationship to a close.
Counselling is a relationship between client and counsellor where you can be genuinely heard and accepted in a safe, supportive and confidential setting. Exploring whatever is on your mind in a neutral space can help you to develop greater awareness and understanding of yourself which may lead you to make different choices in your life that seem right for you. Sometimes counselling can facilitate you to gain perspective, reflect on your options, or find solutions to a particular problem. It can also help you to find better ways to manage a situation that you cannot change.
Confidentiality
Everything you bring to counselling is strictly confidential. Exceptions to this, as outlined in the BACP code of ethics and in order to comply with current legal obligations, will be explained to you at the initial meeting.
What you can expect from me
The quality of the relationship between client and counsellor is strongly linked to a positive therapeutic outcome in my experience. Research also points to relational factors being a key determinant of therapeutic healing and change, so the relationship I develop with clients lies at the heart of my work. As a Humanistic trained counsellor my approach is client-led which means that you decide what it is you want to look at and what you would like to get from counselling. Then we will approach the work together. I will be fully engaged and listen to you carefully in a respectful, empathic and non-judgemental way.
What counselling is not
Counselling is not about an agenda-ed approach or my self-disclosure of mutual experiences. Nor is it about telling you what to do or advising you in the way that some services are designed to, such as the Citizens Advice Bureau. However I may occasionally signpost other third party resources that I think could be of help or interest to you.
Number of sessions
This will depend on what brings you to counselling at this time and what you hope to gain. Some people like to work with a fixed number of sessions followed by a review while others prefer an open ended approach and may want to take more time to explore underlying issues. You may find it helpful to look at early life experiences and make links with what is happening now. Or you may prefer to focus on the present and your choices and hopes for the future. In all cases we will review how you are experiencing our work together and the therapeutic relationship after six sessions and at similar intervals thereafter. Counselling will always come to an end at some point. I only ask that you give a minimum of two sessions notice to end. We will then discuss this to ensure that the decision is the right one for you at that time and look at how best to draw the work and therapeutic relationship to a close.
Hilary Monk
BACP registered counsellor
Phone: 07743 426173 Email: hilaryamonk@gmail.com
BACP registered counsellor
Phone: 07743 426173 Email: hilaryamonk@gmail.com