Counselling Options
Weekly? Fortnightly? Monthly? Check-in?
Up to 6 sessions (up to 50 minutes per session):
This option is for people who may not have had counselling before and feel the boundary and safety of time (up to 6 sessions) is helpful to provide some containment.
With this option, exploring personal goals or steps forward will be discussed in the initial session, if this is something people want.
Up to 25 sessions (up to 50 minutes per session):
People who choose this are likely to want more time explore the issues they are facing or challenges that are impacting on them but also want to work within a Time Limited way.
Personal goals or steps forward are explored initially if this is something people want.
Open Ended (up to 50 minutes per session):
When people choose Open Ended counselling, it can provide greater space and time to explore personal meaning and understanding.
Some people may want time to look at their childhood and/or adult trauma.
Others may want to talk through feelings such as sadness, frustration, anger, or suicidal thoughts.
Some people may want to seek understanding about why they feel the way they do or to reflect on personal meanings or sense of self. People may be asking, ‘Who am I’ or ‘Who do I want to be’ and need some time and space for reflection.
Other people may want to ‘let out’ or externalise their internally held sense of pain, shame or other emotions.
Some people may want to reflect on past or current family relationships and try to find some personal meaning, self-agency or healing.
With Open Ended counselling, in the initial session/s, time may be spent on establishing an 'internal safe place' before exploring traumatic memories or painful emotions.
For this work, weekly sessions are needed and at times twice a week might be helpful.
Weekly, Fortnighly, Monthly: People generally start with counselling but some prefer forthnighly. This can be for different reasons including work committments, family responsibilities or personal finances. This can be discussed at the initial consultation.
Ad-hoc counselling: this option is sometimes used by people who have had counselling with me who wish to reduce the frequency and then have Ad-hoc sessions as a way to check-in.
