Holistic Counselling

Do you struggle with life's everyday situations and challenges? Are your relationships causing you pain? Do you often feel that life is just too hard and too painful? Are you trying to cope with Depression and feel like just giving up? Are you trying to heal from experiences of trauma and abuse? As a Holistic Counsellor, I offer support to help you deal with whatever difficulties you are facing day to day. I aim to help you heal painful experiences and assist you with attending to "unfinished business". I work holistically attending to the clients "whole self" – working with your body, mind, soul, emotion and spirit.

Over the years of working as a Counsellor I've come to understand the greatest way to help clients work through the challenges they face in life and move forward is through a process of gentleness, support and encouragement.

Holistic counselling offers you new ways of thinking, feeling and behaving as well as:

• A deeper understanding of yourself
• Greater self-esteem
• Emotional healing
• A deeper understanding of your emotions, behaviours and experiences in life
• Greater awareness and a higher level of consciousness
• Development of interpersonal skills
• New ways of relating to yourself and others
• Reduced stress and anxiety
• Empowering ways to deal with everyday life challenges
• Helping you cope with loss and grief
• Coping with Depression
• Healing from Trauma and Abuse
• Dealing with Sexuality Issues
• Validation for your experiences

For example, a  young male client had been suffering from depression for a number of years. Now he’s started to find clarity around what he wants from life and the energy to get on and do it.  Learn more about how this happened.

The foundation of Holistic Counselling

Holistic Counselling is the process of emptying the stones from a bowl as described below:

"When a human soul is born into the world it is given a bowl filled with light. The light is the child’s essential identity, it’s potentialities and the gift it brings to the community.

As the child grow stones are placed in the bowl . Some stones are put in by others and some by the child itself. This happens to everyone regardless of his or her circumstances in life.

As the stones fill the bowl it becomes heavier and heavier and increasingly difficult to carry and the light becomes duller.

Sometimes the light is buried from sight but doesn’t go away completely. Inevitably, there comes a time when the work of emptying the stones from the bowl must begin."

- Anna Bernet, Molokai

If you need help in any of the above areas or if you have any questions about Holistic Counselling please do not hesitate to contact me.