Category: For potential clients
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How to check if a counsellor or psychotherapist is a registered professional
The new year often brings an increase in people looking to try counselling or psychotherapy as a way of changing something about themselves or their lives. Here’s a very short guide to checking you’ve chosen a registered professional.
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5 Tips for Coping with Christmas Stress
With the Christmas countdown firmly underway, many people will be starting to feel their stress levels ramping up.
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Hælan
The etymology of the word healing is the Old English hælan, which means ‘to make whole’ I experienced a moment of joyful recognition when I read this (in David Key and Keith Tudor’s excellent Ecotherapy: A Field Guide). For me, this word or idea, of healing as being ’to make…
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Making change
What has helped (or hindered) making change in your life and your world? Are there elements of making change that you might need some help with?
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Navigating change
Sometimes we manage change with ease or equanimity, and sometimes it can leave us feeling stressed out, powerless or lost. It can feel difficult to know how to navigate change and we can be left feeling like we don’t have a map or a compass. Counselling can offer a space…
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What we bring to counselling
Choosing a therapist, and type of therapy, can be bewildering. There are many different approaches to therapy: from a Rogerian person centred approach, to CBT; from approaches that look at our roles in our families or other systems, to approaches that look at how our early years influence our lives…
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On Welcoming
Welcome to my website and to my blog, ‘Thinking about therapy’. I’m glad you found it. In my first post I wanted to take the opportunity not only to welcome readers, but to think more about the idea of welcome, and share some thoughts about how and where it shows…
Stacey Sewell Counselling 