Therapy: The Wellness Model

Counselling can be used to make a good life great. Just as we work out with a personal trainer to increase our motivation and assist us in reaching our fitness goals, so we can utilise positive life counselling to overhaul  our views, emotions and mental perspectives to realize our full potential. The wellness model of counselling is a personal training session for our mental health fitness.

So how can it help?

Positive Life Counselling can:

·         Explore roadblocks that may be stopping you from achieving your best.

·         Make achieving happiness a priority.

·         Prepare you for one off events that may cause anxiety.

·         Encourage staying on the path when your resolve is slipping.

·         Highlight areas of your life that you are avoiding but that you would benefit from working on.

·         Help us learn, grow, become more mindful and respond to life with choice rather than being tossed  around by our emotions.

·         Be a catalyst for changing areas our life beyond the issues we bring to therapy.

·         Renew our vigour, energy and fun; we revitalise our passion for life.

·         Motivate us to replace unhealthy habits with new ones that increase our physical and mental    wellbeing.

·         Bring about a balance in all of our relationships; intimate, family or friendships.

·         Make us calmer better parents who know how to help our children achieve their full potential.

·         Focus us on work goals and how we want our career to enhance our life goals.

·         Show us how to find our purpose in life and work out your true passions.

Counselling offers an opportunity to spend an hour each week just focusing on ‘you’. The only subject matter is yourself; you can explore, proclaim and revel in being you. It is a unique space where you can practice how it would be to be different in a totally confidential environment. Once you have experienced change in the therapy setting you are prepared to take it outside the room and into the world without fear.

Reasons to try counselling

Understanding your past can release you from it; our past plays a role in who we are but it doesn’t have to determine who we become

What we perceive is our reality; each of us has a unique and valid viewpoint which can get obscured by circumstances. When we polish off the lens we are able to see the shine on the world around us

Ultimately all counselling enables us to become our own therapist; we are encouraged to treat ourselves with kindness, compassion and understanding. We can be our own best friend.

 Learn to slow down; time in therapy is like pressing the pause button; we explore the journey outside of the fast pace we more usually experience, the focus is so often on the destination we don’t have the time to enjoy the process. In therapy we allow ourselves to be rather than do which frees us to become more authentic outside the room.

Counselling encourages intimacy in all our relationships; it increases our emotional intelligence, we are able to satisfy our own needs, rather than place unrealistic demands on others, and in doing so we become more confident. All of our relationships are strengthened.

To find out more visit www.shinecounselling.co.uk