Issues I can help with:
Work-related issues including:
* Stress
* Anxiety
* Work-home life balance
* Conflict with colleagues
* Anxiety about not being good enough
* Perfectionism
* Difficulty in saying no
* Difficulty in communicating
* Getting your needs met
How counselling can help with work-related issues
Do you feel overwhelmed and dread Monday mornings and the thought of returning to work? Counselling can help you manage work-related stress and anxiety and help you to start living your life how you want to.
Perhaps stress at work is leaving you struggling to switch off and relax; you lie awake at night worrying and overthinking, unable to sleep. Maybe you constantly question whether you are good enough, resulting in constant anxiety about making mistakes, and you worry about what colleagues will think of you. Or perhaps you feel that work is all consuming – taking over your time, thoughts, feelings, and energy – which may be impacting your relationships and home life.
Thank you if you’ve chosen to visit my website. I’m guessing that the idea of counselling is starting to appeal to you if you have got this far. However, you might be worrying about having to fit yet another thing into your stressful busy week. The good news is that counselling doesn’t have to take a lot of your time. Sessions are just 50 minutes per week and because I offer online counselling sessions through Zoom or over the telephone, this allows you to have the sessions from the comfort of your own home, with no travel time to factor in. I am also able to be more flexible with appointment times for you because I work online.
Another concern may be worrying about not knowing what to say. Having gone through therapy myself, I remember how nervous I felt so I understand. I will gently work together with you to explore what’s brought you to counselling and what your needs are.
Counselling can be transformative and give you new and different perspectives on your relationship with work. It can help you to recognise what is causing you stress at work and the underlying reasons. This can help you to develop coping strategies and to start making different choices about how and who you want to be. Talking about your feelings of not being good enough without fear of judgement can help you to develop confidence and recognise your skills, expertise, and experience. Ultimately through greater self-awareness and self-compassion, you can learn to value yourself. Counselling can also help you to set boundaries and manage other people’s expectations, giving you more time for your relationships and to live a more fulfilling life.
I haven’t always been a counsellor and have personal experience of living for the weekend and getting the Sunday night blues every week. Since retraining as a counsellor, I have worked with many clients who for various reasons have felt unhappy at work. They often felt alone with their issues and did not want to burden their friends and family. In our counselling sessions, they have been able to unburden themselves which has helped them to feel understood, lighter, and less alone. I have listened and supported them to decide what changes they needed to make, to gain more freedom and a better work-life balance.
The average person will spend 90,000 hours at work in a lifetime – that’s a huge amount of time. Would you like more freedom and to feel less stressed? I would love to help you find the tools, coping strategies and changes that will help you to make that happen.
I am a fully qualified and registered counsellor with the BACP and an accredited member of the NCPS.
So, if you have read this far and some of what I have said is resonating with you, please get in touch. I look forward to hearing from you.
Other Issues I can help with:
I am particularly experienced in working with clients who have work-related issues but other issues I can work with include:
Anxiety, Bereavement, Confidence issues, Loss, Personal development, Relationships, Self-esteem, Stress, and Trauma.
Clients I work with:
Adults and Trainee counsellors
My Approach
My aim as a counsellor is to provide a safe, empathic, non-judgmental, and confidential space where you can talk about any personal issues that are troubling you. Using Person-Centred counselling as my core approach I integrate both my formal training and continued training in areas that interest me into my practice. I have experience working long-term with clients and also with clients whose sessions have been short-term (6- 8 weeks) where I draw more on my solution-focused brief therapy skills, working in the here and now, with their immediate issues.
I know it is not always easy to take those first steps into counselling and to seek help with what is challenging you.
I will always strive to understand what you bring to counselling from your perspective and to facilitate you through the therapeutic process with empathy, warmth, patience, and kindness. I see every client as unique so will tailor my approach and use of skills to match your needs.
For me, a key element to the therapeutic work that we do together is the relationship that we will build. I believe and have experienced through my own therapy, that a trusting relationship allows for an honest exploration of those parts of your life that you feel unhappy or dissatisfied with and this can facilitate change.
As a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), I work to the expected standards of practice in their ethical framework. The framework is a set of guidelines and standards to ensure that I am working safely and with your best interests at heart.
