Individual Counselling

It can be reassuring to know that your therapist has had life experiences similar to yours. Knowing that your therapist is also part of the LGBTQ+ community can help you settle into the safe space of therapy that much more readily. Knowing that your therapist has professional knowledge about the unique challenges faced by our community is the most significant piece though – although our mental health challenges are not always directly related to our sexual or gender identity, these aspects of our lives are very likely to intersect with each other.

In therapy sessions, we will work to solve current problems and change unhelpful thinking and behaviour. We will help you “re-frame” your thinking and develop valuable tools to cope with life’s obstacles. An ideal course of therapy will look into three time frames:

• Exploring your past can help to identify patterns of behaviour, understand the roots of emotional difficulties, and set a frame of reference for future progress
• Working in the present, we will examine different ways of thinking which can profoundly influence your emotions and behaviour. Although your past has an influence on your present, working in the “here and now” can help you make your own changes.
• Most therapeutic work is guided by an ideal future self – an ideal that the individual is striving towards. We can delve into the details of what you envision yourself becoming in time, in order to guide what direction our sessions will take.