Ipswich Counselling Centre

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About Counselling

Counselling is a weekly fifty-minute session with your counsellor, which offers you the opportunity to work towards a greater self-awareness and understanding of what is troubling you. Developing a deeper understanding can lead to new ways of coping with feelings and situations. It can enable you to move from feeling trapped or overwhelmed by circumstances, towards seeing a clearer picture and empowering you to approach life in a fresh and more resourceful way.

In your sessions, your counsellor will listen very carefully to you, developing the relationship between you both, in order that together you can explore and try to understand both conscious and more hidden aspects of your thoughts, feelings and behaviours, which may be contributing to your suffering and unhappiness - this is the Psychodynamic approach to counselling.

Talking things through and hearing yourself express your thoughts and feelings, often for the first time, is a process which will help you to move towards a place of more insight and self-awareness and greater control and happiness in your life.

The types of Counselling offered?

During the initial contact you and your counsellor will decide the most suitable type of counselling for you:

Individual long-term counselling, where you will meet with your counsellor for a regular weekly counselling session of fifty minutes.

Individual short-term counselling, where you will meet with your counsellor for 6 or 12 counselling sessions of fifty minutes.

Couple counselling, for those who are married, living together or who wish to be seen together, this may also be parents wishing to improve their relationships with their now adult children. These meetings are with their counsellor for a weekly counselling session of fifty minutes.

Young persons' counselling for children and teenagers, the young person meets with their counsellor for weekly session of fifty minutes.

Fees

The regular sessions are fifty minutes long and are charged at £50 per session for individuals and £70 for couples.

Fees are negotiable, depending on circumstances.

If you would like to contact us to arrange an initial meeting please click here .