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How does it work?
I will seek to help you to identify your desired state, i.e., your goals and dreams.
You'll then seek to achieve them by using your own and new resources and skills.
This can involve you in experimenting with changing beliefs that limit your success,
identifying new beliefs, and/or gaining insights into patterns of your behaviour,
which help you to have more choices.
While your personal history is taken as relevant to how you are now, the emphasis
will be on how you create how you are today from experiences past and present as
well as your ideas about your future. The main focus is on how rather than why.
In general people have three main responses when experiencing the world.
We:
- 'delete' – we choose to ignore some of our experiences.
- 'generalise' – we create universal rules from single experiences,
- 'distort' – we create connections and meanings from and between
experiences that may not have been meant and that may or may not be helpful.
I will be paying close attention to the words that you use, your body language and
your behaviour. From this I will suggest how you create 'how' you are and changes
can be made that will help you become more in control of your life – now and
in your future.
This means that you will learn new skills that will help you to achieve measurable
success. I will help you define these measures so that you will know when your work
is complete.
It is important to understand that you are doing this for yourself and however long
or short you want to take is fine.
Sessions last for 50 minutes and are usually once a week. If you would like longer
sessions or more frequent (or less), I can usually accommodate such requests.
The first session would be where we find out about each other and cover what you
would like to talk about. There is also a form to fill in about yourself, your situation,
health and GP details. I like to be sure I am working with your overall health plans
and not contrary to them.
For most issues that people seek help with, the number of sessions can be from 1
to 20 – or more. It really does depend on what you want to get from the work
and how easily you can get to a point of comfort for yourself. As a rule, the average
number of sessions is around 5 - 7. Sometimes for some problems such as phobias,
only one session can be needed.
I have sessions at home and will do home visits when needed. Another alternative
is sessions over the by phone. There are limitations to what approaches can be used
and just how comfortable you are with talking over the phone generally. Some people
like it – others don't.
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