Counselling
What is counselling?
Often people will engage in counselling when a crisis has occurred in their lives. Counselling is a form of ‘talk therapy’. Counselling is a process where an individual, couple or family meet with a trained professional counsellor to talk about issues and problems that they are facing in their lives. Professional counselling is confidential and non-judgmental. Counselling can provide people with the opportunity to share their views, be heard and gain new perspectives on their situation, experiences as well as assist in gaining clarity around surrounding issues. Counselling can provide guidance to help people navigate life’s challenges. Counsellors work with clients on strategies to overcome obstacles and personal challenges that they are facing.How Counselling Helps
Counsellors can specialize in different areas to help certain groups of people. Types of counselling Knowing You Matter provides includes –- Relationship
- Trauma
- Drug and Alcohol
- Grief and Loss
- Family and Domestic Violence
- Christian counselling
Relationship Counselling
Relationship counselling helps couples and individuals address issues in their relationships. Relationship counselling explores issues within the relationship with a focus on what has led to the couple’s disagreements, fighting or dissatisfaction, along with other issues presenting in the relationship. Counsellor’s work with the couple together and individually to gain a more specific understanding of why they are seeking counselling and what steps both parties need to take to ensure that their relationship continues to bring them long-term satisfaction and personal fulfillment.
What is Trauma Counselling?
Trauma counselling provides a safe environment for you to begin to work through your experiences. Counsellors will offer you grounding techniques and awareness exercises to help you.
Trauma is a stress response that remains frozen in time within a person. This can be through a physical, emotional, and psychological response due to high levels of fear or stress without have a chance to escape.
Counsellors will help you to regulate emotions to feel safer in the present using resources, strengths and skills while providing more strategies to manage your trauma responses.
Trauma counselling can help you cope with your trauma responses regardless of whether it was caused by a one-time event, ongoing or complexed trauma.
While not all trauma survivors experience long-term negative consequences, we know that the experience of trauma can profoundly affect someone’s psychological, social, physical, occupational, and financial functioning.
— KELLY WORKMAN, PSYD
Trauma counsellors from Knowing You Matter can address;
- Abuse Trauma
- Abandonment Trauma
- Accident Trauma
- Trauma from the death of a loved one
- Crime Trauma
- Divorce Trauma
- Trauma as a result of Family and Domestic Violence
- Life threatening experiences
- Neglect
- Witnessing an accident, death, or traumatic situation