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How counselling helps

Counselling can help you feel that you're not alone when things seem too difficult. Instead, you'll be supported when you're trying to get through a painful experience, or feel stuck and can't see a way forward.

What counselling can help with

  • Problem-solvingto help you learn ways to solve problems see other ways of meeting the issues you are facing.
  • Getting a clearer understanding of yourselfby helping you identify your values, beliefs, and the things you want to do in life, to help you to grow.
  • Coping with challengesincluding stress, depression, anxiety, depression and grief. Your counsellor can help you find ways to cope and discover skills to manage your emotions and become more able to be OK in difficult situations.
  • Improving relationshipsby helping you to identify difficulties with talking openly about your needs and understanding the needs of other people. By supporting you to find ways to get through disagreements, and grow healthier ways of being together with people.
  • Support you during life eventslike career changes, relocation, divorce, or loss. Counselling can help you come to understand and find a way through these changes, while you adjust and find a new way forward.

About Person-Centred counselling

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Person-centred counselling is a type of counselling where, as the name suggests, the most important person is you. Your counsellor focuses on listening carefully to how you are experiencing things and tries to understand what it's like from your point of view.

They will accept you as you are, and you won't have to worry about burdening the counsellor or disappointing them, as you might do with people you are close to.

The counsellor will create a safe and comfortable space for you to talk freely and openly bout whatever is troubling you. They won't judge you or tell you what to do. Instead, they will support you and try to help you find your own solutions, to the difficulties you are trying to work through.

In Person-Centred counselling, you decide what you want to talk about. The counsellor will be there to support in talking through what's important to you at that time, helping you to recognise patterns of behaviour and to help you and help you understand yourself better.

Person-Centred counsellors believe, that you have the ability to find your own answers and make the best decisions for yourself, with the right support and encouragement. That way, when counselling ends, you be better able to continue to grow and move close to where you want to be.

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Find out about online counselling with Person-Centred counsellor Scott Davidson.

About working online with Scott