FAQ's
- ✓Stress and anxiety
- ✓Low confidence and self-esteem
- ✓Relationship difficulties
- ✓Love
- ✓Parenting issues
- ✓Conflict resolution
- ✓Family issues
- ✓Separation and Divorce
- ✓Attachment
- ✓Depression
Sometimes talking to a friend can be helpful and I will often encourage you to use your family and friends. However there are some disadvantages to using friends as your only confidants and support.
Friends and family could feel a conflict of loyalty and find it hard to keep things confidential. They may become upset themselves by what you are telling them and could become upset if you don't accept their advice. Counselling is different in that you can speak with me freely and be completely open about other relationships, whereas family and friends may know the people involved.
I will be able to provide you with support and necessary steps to help you deal with upsetting and difficult situations; friends may begin to feel overburdened, especially if they have their own problems too. In this situation you may feel that that you can't really speak with them about your own worries.