Talking Therapies

What is Talking Therapy?

Talking Therapy can help to address emotional difficulties by talking to a trained person in order to work through negative ways of feeling, thinking and behaving.  Talking Therapy can build confidence, self esteem, self understanding and promote a more positive outlook which can help to gain greater control of life.

Types of Talking Therapies

The Mind website has a list of the different types of talking therapies along with other information you may find interesting when thinking about accessing services click here!

More information can be found at British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy(BACP) and Mental Health Foundation.

What is Counselling?

Counselling is a Talking Therapy that gives the opportunity to talk about experiences or events that have been affecting the way you feel. Common themes are stress, relationships, change, loss and distressing traumatic events. Counselling helps people sort out their thoughts and feelings about their concerns to enable change.

How Confidential is Counselling?

The content of counselling sessions is confidential unless something is shared with the counsellor that he/she cannot keep private. Here are the most usual reasons:

• Where you give permission to share information
• Where a practitioner is compelled by a court of law
• Where the information is of such a gravity that confidentiality cannot be maintained, this includes where it is felt there is a real possibility of harm to yourself or others, in cases of fraud, crime or terrorism

The counsellor contracts and discusses this conditional confidentiality with you at the first appointment. Also all counsellors have clinical counselling supervision where they discuss their client work with a counselling supervisor.