Holistic Counselling is a gentle, caring, personalised, and integrative form of therapy that treats you as a whole rather than focusing on specific issues or symptoms. Holistic Counselling considers the interconnection between your mind, body, and spirit (physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual elements) to uncover possible underlying causes.
Holistic Counselling combines conventional therapies such as Narrative and Gestalt with unconventional therapies and tools such as mediation, relaxation techniques, crystal therapy, energy healing, oracle cards and numerology to help you reconnect with your innate strengths and to facilitate self-healing through empowerment.
Holistic Counselling takes a person-centred approach where you are both the focus and the guide for the session Holistic Counselling sessions are private, personalised, confidential, and non-judgmental.
Each session usually takes 50-60 minutes.
The role of the Holistic Counsellor is to help you to help yourself.
What Holistic Counselling is not.
- Holistic counselling is not about judging you or comparing you or your experiences to others
- Holistic counselling is not labelling you
- Holistic counselling is not providing advice or telling you what you should or should not do
- Holistic counselling is not disregarding your own experiences or point of view
What are some of the benefits of Holistic Counselling?
- Increased self-awareness and self-acceptance
- Improved physical and emotional wellbeing
- Increased ability to cope with distresses
- A greater sense of optimism
- Increased self esteem
- Enhanced Spiritual awareness
- A deeper understanding of yourself
What are the goals of Holistic Counselling?
- To empower personal growth, self-discovery, and self-belief to find purpose, direction, and inner calm
- To maintain improved mental and physical well-being
- To find and know your true self – your strengths, desires, fears, challenges, and motivations
- To nurture coping techniques and strategies
- To support you in realising your own innate ability to self-heal
- To understand the connection between your mind, body, and spirit
- To empower your self-realisation and self-acceptance
What is Self-Realisation?
- Thinking independently
- Trusting your own instincts
- Understanding and embracing your individuality
- Taking confident positive steps towards achieving your goals
Why is Self-Realisation important?
- It enables you to make decisions and solve problems independently
- It develops self-acceptance – feeling happy about yourself, within yourself, and being by yourself
- Provides perspective which leads to direction
- It enables you to grow and thrive
- It helps you to find and maintain happiness
- It increases your self-knowledge
- It involves exercising self-compassion
What is a Person-centred approach?
- It provides an environment where you can come to understand yourself more and uncover you own answers
- It recognises your capacity to implement self-determined changes
- It meets you where you are at that time
- It is collaborative rather than directive
- It is non-judgmental
