Affinity Counselling

There are many different ways of seeing and describing counselling and therapy, and many different approaches that aim to help with the most fundamental problems and difficulties that we experience as human beings.

Counselling can provide a safe place in which to tell your story,to explore the things that you are finding difficult at the moment, and to have the experience of really being heard by someone else. 

Being heard with empathy and understanding is one of the most healing elements in counselling and therapy.  It  can also allow you to explore the more painful aspects of your life, and find ways of being more at peace with yourself, living more creatively and consciously, and freeing yourself from the unhelpful emotional patterns that may be holding  you back.

Therapy is a chance to really be heard, to tell, or maybe re-tell, your life's experiences in a way that can gradually allow them to make more sense, and  be transformed into acceptance. This will often involve re-connecting with the deeper unconscious aspects of yourself that have been buried along the way, as you have grown up and learnt to live life.

Counselling and therapy can help with a wide variety of emotional and psychological difficulties:

• anger
• addiction
• stress, anxiety and depression
• bereavement
• relationship difficulties
• childhood issues
• HIV/AIDS
• managing changes in your life such as divorce or job loss
• issues of meaning and direction which are often faced in mid life or 
  as we get older