Counselling Approach    

You may or may not know much about counselling, but there are different schools of counselling and this can make a difference to your experience.  At Woman’s Trust we use an approach called Person-Centred, developed by  Carl Rogers. This means that you are in control of the sessions, you decide what you want to talk about. 

The counsellor’s role is to be real, who they are and not be the ‘expert professional’, so that there is a two-way relationship. They are not there to judge you or tell you what to do but to follow you in what you want to talk about.  It is different from talking to friends or family, as you can say what you want without fear of being made to feel foolish or told what you should do or keep it a secret because you are afraid of how they might respond or tell others.   Anything you tell the counsellor is confidential, except in a few extreme cases (see confidentially section).

Counselling can only really work if it is something you want to do, rather than you feel you should do or someone else thinks you should do.  It could be that when a counselling slot becomes free you might decide that it is not a good time for you (perhaps you are moving house or have lots of other things going on) and that’s fine, just tell us and you can take up the service when it is right for you.