Common Problems
My training, continual professional development, supervision and personal therapy enable me to provide a broad support for many psychological and psychosomatic problems.
What we often find in counselling is that a 'presenting' issue, usually what the client talks about in the first session and the reason for the decision to come into therapy in the first place forms only part of the puzzle. It is the task of therapy to help identify the underlying themes with the client; feelings and emotions that are working often without the client being aware of where they are coming from.
A list of problems can be found on the 'Other Common Problems' page but if some of what you are feeling or experiencing can be identified below then now may be a good time to consider some counselling:
- Feelings of anxiety and an inability to cope or concentrate
- Feelings of emptiness, sadness or depression
- Lack of confidence or feelings of underachievement
- Excessive shyness
- Difficulty in making or sustaining relationships, or repeatedly becoming involved in unsatisfying or destructive relationships
- Sexual problems
- Extreme mood swings
- Coming to terms with divorce, bereavement, or unemployment
- Physical symptoms
- Eating disorders
- Obsessional behaviour
- Phobias
- Panic attacks
