Counselling
What Does a Counselling Session Involve?
Our first meeting will be an assessment. Once we have met and agreed to work together, there will be an arrangement to meet for a number of weeks or months. We will look for an aim or objective to guide us in the counselling process and later in the therapy there will be a session put aside for review.
Please contact me for details of fees - I can offer reduced rates under certain circumstances, eg. to students, senior citizens and those receiving benefits.
Counselling in Detail
Recently, I experienced Judy's depth of sensitivity and compassion. She witnessed in me something that needed expression and her gentle support was invaluable. That, for me, is healing in action, the wise witness that enables the spirit within.—Marie O'Brien, Core Wellbeing
Counselling is a focused process of regular discussion, as well as sharing of thoughts and feelings, with a trained counsellor. The process itself helps you to understand and resolve stress and other difficult emotions, no matter what their source.
Through the resolution of difficult issues, counselling can help you make decisions or changes which enable you to live your life more fully. The basis of all counselling is objective, supportive, non–judgmental listening, coupled with a respect for the client as an individual. There are no right or wrong answers, only answers that are appropriate and work for you.
Counselling can sometimes be an uncomfortable process, as it may involve discussing things we've previously pushed aside. However, the counselling process provides a great opportunity to gain new perspectives and can encourage progress towards an improved well-being and personal integration.
A Spiritual Perspective
Judy has a very gentle approach with an underlying firmness and support: a guiding light in a time when I was lost.—Melvyn Foey, The Healing Wave
My therapeutic work has a spiritual dimension that embraces a deep powerful process within us which can enable change to take place. This will only happen when we can think for ourselves. Most of us have been conditioned since birth to view life in a certain way, value-judging each other and so separating ourselves into a place of loneliness and fear.
The garden
Learning to communicate our emotions is of the utmost importance in order to connect and relate appropriately. Our soul's journey can be a challenging one and we need to ask ourselves the bigger questions, such as "Why are we here?" and "What may be our purpose?". Having a greater understanding of this and our own limitations, in essence our humanity, can open doors to a more productive and harmonious existence.