Category: Counselling
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The Counselling Journey
Counselling is a bit like going on a journey together. We start by building a safe place which will always be there when you need it. That’s the confidential space where we meet and the professional relationship built on trust, acceptance and caring between us. We learn what’s important for you – your destination –…
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What does good therapy look like?
Does Instagram sometimes make you cringe? I’ve been posting content on Instagram for nearly a year now @belgamlincounselling. The amount of mental health and therapy content on this popular social media channel is huge! Some of it is very, very good, but also I’m noticing a feeling of disquiet in me around content I’ve seen…
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What colour are you feeling today?
I love a nice bit of colour! A garden in full bloom gives me a real lift. And I really admire people who can wear flamboyant colours; something I struggle to do but I’m working on it! Colours are like a language and have different cultural meanings. Colour can also describe how we feel inside.…
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Walk and Talk Therapy
Walk and talk therapy happens in the outdoors; the natural environment becomes the therapy room. I meet with clients at an agreed place in the countryside or an uncrowded outdoor space and we walk together and talk about what is important to the client. Since Covid, it has become a more popular means of connecting…
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Everybody’s talking at me
Everybody’s talking at me I don’t hear a word they’re saying Only the echoes of my mind Fred Neil ‘Everybody’s Talking’ is popular song made famous in the evocative film “Midnight Cowboy”. This tune has always stuck with me. It has started playing in my mind on occasions when I have felt ‘talked at’ for…
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Would you change?
To change or not to change ? The simple truth is, change is hard. This post starts to explore change as a process and how counselling fits in. How we ‘do life’ is often done in a very familiar and predictable kind of way. This gives us the comfort of knowing what to expect and…