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The First Session It is important to provide a safe environment for clients to attend. Many new clients will feel ill at ease when visiting a counsellor for the first time, so it is important to be both professional and welcoming. It can take a lot of courage for a client to admit they need [...] Depression This can indicate a range of emotions from feeling down to literally being unable to move or speak. It can be brought on by a number of external factors including unemployment, dysfunctional relationships, bereavement, lack of sleep and poor self esteem. In many cases it cannot be linked to any one particular factor, and clients [...] Relationships Human beings are thought to be instinctively social creatures, and relationships form an integral part of this sociability. Sadly for many people forming and maintaining relationships can be extremely stressful and difficult. As counsellors it is important that we encourage a client experiencing relationship difficulties to examine how they start, and behave within, relationships. [...] There are times when we all face the prospect of losing our jobs, but never more so than during an economic crisis. Redundancy can have a devastating effect on the individual, their family and the colleagues they leave behind. It can also effect the person within the organisation who’s job it is to deliver the news. Worrying [...] Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the role of meaning, emotion and behaviour in mental health difficulties. It works on the principle that when we anticipate something good is about to happen to us we usually feel happy and excited. Likewise if we attach distressing meanings to events we are likely to experience distressing thoughts [...] Sigmund Freud developed a clinical treatment for people’s neuroses which he called Psychoanalysis. The aim of the treatment is to re-establish a harmonious relationship between the ego, id and super-ego, and to resolve unconscious and often repressed emotional conflicts. Freud discovered that when clients were encouraged to talk about their earliest memories and occurrences of any neuroses [...] |
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