Freedom Therapy Centre offers counselling for adults within Christchurch and surrounding areas.
What can counselling can help with?
Often friends, family members or colleagues are too close to your issues and can cloud your thinking or judgements. Counselling gives you the time and space to explore your thoughts in a way that helps you discover your true feelings, make decisions or simply feel heard.
I can help you with a range of emotional issues, dilemmas or difficult life experiences, and will help you explore or navigate your circumstances in a supportive environment.
Understanding Emotions
Feeling anxious, low in mood or tearful are common reasons for attending counselling, along with feeling empty or wondering why you're just not feeling your usual self.
Counselling can help you understand difficult emotions.
Relationships
Are you facing a relationship breakdown, divorce, blended families or struggling with being a step-parent?
Counselling can help you understand your relationships whether with family, friends and colleagues and navigate challenging times in life.
Work-based issues
Stress, workplace bullying, imposter syndrome, fears of redundancy or experiencing burnout are all common themes in counselling and can be confidentially explored with your therapist outside of work.
Life-transitions
Are you feeling frazzled, or have you lost your sense of purpose or joy? Or are you lacking in confidence, motivation or feeling more anxious about the future?
Counselling can help with the additional challenges that life-changes such as divorce, loss, menopause, mid-life, career transitions, heading off to university and/or early retirement can bring.
Grief & Loss
Coming to terms with the loss of a loved one or facing our own mortality are some of the biggest challenges that life can throw at us. Counselling can be helpful to explore your feelings, whether for yourself or as a carer.
Counselling for pet-loss also recognises some people may need extra support whilst grieving for a much loved pet, and can often bring up unexpected emotions.
Of Note: I have pets on my premises for those with allergies to be aware of. They may even join you in session if you feel you'd benefit from their presence.
Facing the future
Often making decisions can fill us with fear or dread and we often put these off. Other times, decisions have been made for us, such as redundancy, divorce or other circumstances such as remaining childless when we had hoped or planned for a family.
Navigating our future possibilities can be tough when we might struggle to do this alone, so counselling can help you to reflect on what you want from life and can help you with planning an alternative future.