Counselling Oxfordshire

Counselling gives you with a supportive, non judgmental and confidential environment in which to explore  emotional and psychological issues. Counselling can help you to identify your own personal resources and capabilities, which are sometimes lost or buried in times of confusion and anxiety. It may enable you to see your circumstances with more clarity so that you can make the necessary changes that will help you at this particular stage of your life.   Counselling respects your individual needs, and will enable you to make decisions that you want to make in your life. Throughout this process you will be encouraged, supported and empowered to look at yourself from a different perspective. The aim is not only to help you cope with a current issue or crisis, but to do so in a way that produces learning for the future, so you can feel more in charge of your life. Taking responsibility is an important part of this commitment.

Psychotherapy means ‘treatment of the mind’ there are many different types of therapy encompassed in this term including; hypnotherapy, hypno-psychotherapy, councelling, Brief solution focused therapy, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Psychoanalytical Therapy, Gestalt Therapy, Humanistic/Transpersonal Therapy, Emotional Freedom Technique or E.F.T and N.L.P or Neuro Linguistic Programming. Psychotherapy involves verbal interaction between client and therapist in order to understand and resolve problems. Much of who we are, what we are and how we deal with our day to day lives is hidden from our conscious mind or everyday awareness and we build defence mechanisms in order to hide the things that we find most difficult to cope with. Psychotherapy treats the whole person and can help you to explore present circumstances that you are finding difficult, experiences from the past that you are finding hard to come to terms with and future events that you may be worried about. Psychotherapy helps to validate you as a person, your feelings, your behaviour, helps you to make sense of emotions that may be controlling you and the experiences that trigger them. During the process your self-esteem and confidence will flourish helping you to reach your full potential. Sophie Cresswell from psychotherapy… uses and is qualified in, a combination of different therapies in the psychotherapeutic process, which will enable you to make positive changes in your life.

Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) describes a number of therapies that all have a similar approach to solving problems - these can range from sleeping difficulties or relationship problems, to anxiety and depression. CBT works by changing peoples attitudes and their behaviour. The therapies focus on the thoughts, images, beliefs and attitudes that we hold (our cognitive processes) and how this relates to the way we behave, as a way of dealing with emotional problems. An important advantage of CBT is that it tends to be short, taking three to six months for most emotional problems. During this time, Sophie Cresswell at Cognitive behavioural therapy… will work with you to understand what the problems are and to develop new strategies for tackling them. CBT introduces you to a set of principles that you can apply whenever you need to, and which will stand you in good stead throughout your life. It literally gives you a theraputic toolbox that you can use whenever the need arises. Hypno-Psychotherapy and CBT are perfect partners that help you to look at how your thoughts can create feelings and mood and enable you to explore the relationship between your problems, your behaviour and your thoughts. Hypnosis helps the process of looking at past behaviours and thinking patterns and suggesting new improved patterns to replace them.