COUNSELLING WITH ALEX PLEDGER
What do you really need when you feel overwhelmed with life’s problems?
- A quiet, comfortable place to sit and think
- Someone to talk to who doesn’t judge, advise or think they know best
- Someone who asks questions to help you understand what you think and feel
- Someone who is available, regularly and reliably and is fully focused on helping you
Counselling offers you that space to come and talk things through. ‘A problem shared is a problem halved’ is not just an old wives' tale - talking things through with a professional is a proven way to help people sort out their confusion and make positive changes in their life.
I have successfully helped people to deal with a whole range of problems that made them seek help:
- Getting anxious and stressed out
- Feeling unmotivated, depressed or hopeless
- Getting angry when they need to be assertive
- Lacking self-confidence and avoiding situations out of fear
- Feeling confused about a relationship, or trying to behave differently in a current relationship
- Using alcohol, drugs or sex to meet their emotional needs
- Coming to terms with things that have happened that can’t be undone
- Having no sense of direction or hope for the future
- Coming to terms with a bereavement or loss in life
For counselling to help we will need to meet face-to-face, once a week, for 50 minutes. Unless we agree a specific number of sessions, we continue working until you feel happy to continue without counselling. An average number of sessions is about three months but everyone has individual needs and it may take much less or more time to help you feel ok.
