Counselling

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Counselling gives you an opportunity to talk through your thoughts and feelings in a safe, non-judgemental environment, where your voice will be heard. 

It gives you a safe place to explore the challenges you may be struggling with and help you to make sense of them and find a new way forward.

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• Internal Family Systems (IFS)
• Person-centred Therapy
• Cognitive and behavioural therapies
• Psychodynamic therapy
• Play therapy

Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy is a therapeutic approach that is known for being a gentle, respectful and compassionate way to understand ourselves and built a better relationship between our wounded parts, protectors and our core self.

We can be impacted by life experiences, and this can cause a part of us to be wounded and exiled away within our systems. This wounding can sometimes become frozen in time and stuck within us. Years later something may happen that triggers this young wound, and we may feel like we become young and vulnerable. Some examples of woundings are: The Traumatised, The Rejected, The Worthless, The Betrayed or The Abandoned.

When the wounding happened, a protector would have taken on a role in our system that's one aim is to try and stop anything hurting this young part. Our protectors also appear in many different ways. Some examples of protector roles are:  A Pleaser, A Rescuer, A Joker, an Overachiever, an Analyst, a Perfectionist, or 

even a part that feels the need to Numb. These roles are all created to protect protect the wound for feeling any further pain. The protectors don't realise that these behaviours may be causing further conflict within your system.

IFS therapy allows us to connect to these protectors and help us understand their intentions, while building a better relationship with our core self. We can also unburden the wounded parts and help them release the negative thoughts, feelings or beliefs that have been holding them down for so long and set them free. 

IFS is a fascinating way to truly understand who we are and understand why we do what we do or feel the way we feel. It is not about judging the behaviours in a negative way. It is about holding compassion for the role it has taken on to protect us. Building a better relationship with self and the protectors and unburdening our wounds allows us to live a better self-led life that allows us to be happy with who they are.