Helping clients - Adults, Couples and Children - achieve their personal goals using various counselling models and psychotherapeutic approaches.
Welcome to Goals Counselling
Goals Counselling is a division of Goals Solutions Ltd, the parent company, offering strictly confidential and non-judgemental Counselling to our private clients.
We provide Person-centred Integrative Counselling, Solution Focused Therapy, Bereavement Counselling, Transactional Analysis, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Drugs & Alcohol Counselling, Child & Young Adult Counselling and Couple Counselling .
At Goals Counselling we help clients, in a private and confidential setting, explore a difficulty they may be experiencing; a distress they are going through; or perhaps their dissatisfaction with their life because of their sense of loss of direction and purpose.
Adult Counselling
- Counselling is not advice giving, nor is it telling the client what to do or how to do something. It is helping the client explore their situation by looking at different options, perspectives, alternatives which they may not have explored previously.
Child Counselling
- When a child is happy, they are happy all over; their eyes sparkle, their step is light and carefree, their laugh is free and quick to come bubbling to the surface. When a child is sad and depressed, they are unhappy from top to bottom; their movement is slow and their eyes mirror the unhappiness in their life.
- Play Therapy offers children with behavioural issues the opportunity to work through their problems, learning about themselves, accepting themselves and being able to grow more mature through the therapy experiences. The more one tries to push away / suppress a child's unhappy feelings, the more they will become stuck in them. On the other hand, the more a child is helped to accept bad feelings (whatever the source) the easier it is for the child to let go of them.
Couple Counselling
- Couple Counselling is about helping couples address their specific issues through helping them to talk about their feelings with one another in a strictly confidential, non-judgemental and non-side taking setting. It is only by exploring these difficult issues with one another that a solution that is suitable and agreeable by both can be explored, discussed and decided upon.
It is important to emphasise that counselling can never be forced upon someone. In other words, the client(s) must want to come to the counselling sessions themselves and be committed to the process and not because they have been nagged into it by family or friends.
Counselling can help clients:
- gain personal insight
- when they are overwhelmed or depressed
- increase their self confidence and self-esteem
- when they need someone to just listen to them attentively and empathically
- with their ability to cope better in difficult circumstances and situations
- when they are experiencing an issue/problem that is seriously affecting their day-to-day life
- increase their emotional awareness of self and others
- when they are unable to make important or even non-important decisions and are not sure what to do next
- with clarification of confused thoughts and feelings
- in their personal development and potential to achieve their ambitions
Talking to friends or family may be beneficial at times but all too often they are too emotionally attached and unable to be objective. Also they have a desire to comfort, rather than point out uncomfortable truths. Therapy / Counselling can at times be a little uncomfortable because it involves embarking on a journey of discovery and it requires real honesty if the therapy is to be of any benefit at all.
For people who choose to discuss their issue with a counsellor, this does not mean they cannot cope on their own. It means they are able to speak to someone who is impartial, and who has the skills and experience to help them sort out what is troubling them.
Counselling sessions are normally carried out at the Cranwell House clinic in Ingatestone, Essex which specialises in Hypnotherapy, Life Coaching as well as Counselling. For more information please click on the Goals Hypnosis and/or Goals Life Coaching buttons.
If you would like to find out more, please contact Goals Counselling for an initial FREE consultation.