Individuals who suffer of stress and burnout often experience an overwhelming feeling of being unable to manage the demands of their occupation, responsibilities family and dependants and have difficulty finding motivation, enthusiasm or the will to continue performing routine tasks and challenges. The individual, being weighed down by increasing demands and pressure is therefor in a natural state of emotional and temporarily unable to surmount the peaks of the difficult journey toward recognising context and understanding the solutions available to learn how to manage this phenomenon. The counsellor acts as the objective channel through which skills, coping mechanisms and behavioural techniques are imparted to:

• Assessing the causes, factors and individuals or circumstances that contribute toward the crippling end result;
• Prioritising, compartmentalising and differentiating between occupational and personal interests and responsibilities;
• Fostering identification, validation and assessment techniques in order to implement learned management and coping strategies, and
• Enabling the individual to master the approach and solution process in order to establish independent ability to act rationally in future occurrences.

It is commonly recognised that individuals experience the need of greater personal, social, familial, mental, physical or intellectual enlightenment, achievement or improvement. Since individuals personal needs and desires differ drastically, the area of focus will determine the counselling and guidance approach, but will holistically provide:

• A non-judgemental, confidential environment in which the individual may voice the shortcomings, hopes, ideals and goals for growth & development;
• An openminded communication channel to enable assessment, review and consideration of possibilities in which to attain the area specific enhancement and growth;
• Guidance toward integrating newly attained growth and development into the existing sense of being, to enable ease of continuing toward future developments.

mood disorders: depression, lack of motivation, career guidance, etc;

Individual across a wide range of gender, age, socio-economic classes, races and cultures are eligible to be affected by a defined and subcategorised condition defined collectively under the classification of Mood Disorder. These include all subcategories of mood disorders contained between the three major spectrum markers: Depression, Manic and Bipolar conditions.

Mood disorders are generally characterised by a significant variation in mood that proves to be disruptive to a person’s ability to participate in life in a constructive, acceptable and functional manner.

Since the presentation of an undiagnosed mood disorder requires that it be identified and attributed to the relevant subcategory (i.e. depressive, multiple, borderline, obsessive-compulsive, antisocial, etc.), the counsellor’s approach will be detailed, category specific and in agreement with industry regulations.

Should you have reason to believe that you may benefit from assessment through counselling, these specifics and approaches will be discussed with you during personal consultation.

eating disorders: abstinence, binging, emotional eating, etc;

Most often (although not exclusively) suffered by females than by males, the occurrence of eating disorder are not limited to members of any specific gender, age range, race of socio-economic standing. Characterised by the presentation of dietary behaviour of extremes – whether it be to the extent of abstinence or binging (severe overindulgence) – the behaviour may be recurring (on frequent or even daily basis) or induced by environmental influences such as stress, pressure, fear, or an array of emotions. The nature, frequency and specified behaviour will indicate the category of the eating disorder, whether it be Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, Binge Eating (also known as Emotional Eating) or Orthorexia, to name the most commonly known.

The causes and treatment of eating disorders are definitively complex and the suitable and successful approach necessarily varies as greatly as individual parameters do. In order to determine whether you may suffer of an eating disorder and to gain from the guidance and reference of a non-judgemental professional, contacting the Counsellor is advisable.

 

The field of this counselling focus is esoteric and individually defined, since personal challenges (such as harbouring resentment, fear of abandonment, feelings of emotional detachment, guilt, etc, to name but a minor few), will determine to extent, nature and approach of counselling, coaching and skills development.

Counselling provides a confidential and non-judgemental environment in which the individual is guided to identify the nature of the challenge, the cause and/or source, and lead to develop skills to assess, validate and manage the effects giving rise to challenges which the individual will learn to overcome. Active participation, commitment to growth and personal enhancement will benefit the client to attain a holistic resolve and resolution to cope with repeat occurrences in future progress.

Anger Management Counselling primarily focusses on enabling an individual to develop and acquire skills to recognise:

• the causes or triggers (whether underlying or evident) for anger and
• lessen, redirect and process the feelings created by anger into productive results.

Individual counselling endeavours to address the specific territories of anger (i.e. workplace or work-related, interpersonal relationships, parental, marital, adolescent, etc.), and to develop management skills founded in cognitive behavioural adaption.

The counsellor guides the understanding of the fundamentals of anger in order to promote the acquisition of aptly founded, successful management skills:

• Understanding the cause for and existence of anger;
• Determining when anger presents as a real or potential problem;
• Being able to recognise the characteristics or signs of anger;
• Adapting and improving the problematic response to anger;
• Effective methods of coping with anger in a healthy manner;
• Imparting skills to enable:
  • problem resolution motived by anger (reaching a positive result from a negative cause);
  • effective and productive communication skills.

ADHD Counselling is offered for individuals who present with ADHD or for the caretakers of children or teenagers diagnosed with ADHD.
Teenagers, young children and adults (although less commonly diagnosed in the latter) stand to benefit from ADHD Counselling. Individuals suffering from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder commonly experience feelings and emotions of impulsiveness, restlessness, the inability to pay undivided attention to any task or topic, and hyperactivity.

The condition is categorized into three subtypes of presentation, which requires to be ascertained in order to establish the best counselling approach:

• predominantly inattentive presentation (characterised by inattention is predominantly visible and hyperactivity to a lesser degree)
• predominantly hyperactive-impulsive (where hyperactivity and impulsiveness appear mostly)
• combined hyperactive-impulsive and inattentive (where six or more symptoms are present, from either of the categories mentioned above)

Counselling offers the individual, whether it be the presenting ADHD individual or a caretaker, guidance in the identification of and development of skills, mechanisms and tool to –

• Understand the condition and how to constructively manage is;
• Adapt individual behaviour so as to productively continue to work, grow and participate in satisfactory life experiences;
• Enabling the individual with the tools, sources and skills required to continue to develop behavioural and management techniques to keep pace with the occurrence of future challenges.