How Counselling Works
Making a decision to come to counselling is a first step towards change in your life so congratulate yourself for the courage you've already shown. The counselling process is mutually collaborative and is aimed at empowering you to explore, understand, and enable changes in your life. Typically our first session is about 75 minutes so that we have enough time to discuss where you are right now, where you've been, and, most importantly, where you want or need to be. Subsequent sessions are 50 minutes long. The duration of counselling will vary according to your needs. Counselling is about you-- so it's important that you feel comfortable with me as your therapist to know that you can share what's most important and pressing for you in an environment where you feel accepted and valued. Counselling is confidential so what is spoken in the counselling session remains between us. Read more about confidentiality here.
We all seek counselling for different reasons: to enhance positive aspects of our lives through greater self awareness and insight or to find refuge through life's most difficult times. In the early weeks of counselling, or, at times when working through a particularly sensitive issue, it is possible to experience continued or increased distress. However, persisting through the counselling process is the best way to resolve the challenges that brought you here in the first place.
You may decide to end counselling at any time; however it's important that we discuss your needs and potential options for ongoing support. Self-help programs, referrals to community resources, and group programs available from other professional organizations may provide an alternative to or complement to counselling.
To learn more about my areas of practice, see Individual Counselling and Couple Counselling.
We all seek counselling for different reasons: to enhance positive aspects of our lives through greater self awareness and insight or to find refuge through life's most difficult times. In the early weeks of counselling, or, at times when working through a particularly sensitive issue, it is possible to experience continued or increased distress. However, persisting through the counselling process is the best way to resolve the challenges that brought you here in the first place.
You may decide to end counselling at any time; however it's important that we discuss your needs and potential options for ongoing support. Self-help programs, referrals to community resources, and group programs available from other professional organizations may provide an alternative to or complement to counselling.
To learn more about my areas of practice, see Individual Counselling and Couple Counselling.
Beth Breckenridge, MA Individual and Couple Counsellor 613-203-0151 Copyright Breckenridge Counselling 2021