Parenting: The 3 C’s – Consistency, Care, Communication
When it comes to raising kids, the number one question on most parent’s minds is HOW?
Study Stress and Anxiety
Are you currently studying? Ready to face exams? Have assignment deadlines? Are you finding yourself not able to cope?
Navigating the Dating Game
Firstly, it’s important to know what you’re looking for in a date, or potential partner. Are you looking for a short-term connection, or a lifelong partnership?
Sexual Addictions Counselling
Sexual addictions include addiction to internet porn, having multiple affairs with sexual involvement, or engaging in interactive online sexual behaviours.
Post-Natal Depression
A lot of new mums spend so much time making birth plans and dealing with anxiety about labour. But they don’t always develop an after birth plan. There are so many changes in this time of your life, but it doesn’t stop at giving birth. You will have a new baby in no time. So…
Child Protection Matters
You might ask the question, we’re here to talk about my issues, why do you want to know about my children? Essentially, when it comes to counselling, all aspects of life can be contributing to your current level of functioning. All parts of your personal life may need some air time at some stage or…
Mental Health: Hope for Return to Normality
Mental health issues impact most of us at some stage “What’s happing to me? Why am I feeling like this? Why can’t I get better?” These are some common questions people ask when they are struggling with a mental illness. And times like this can seem bleak and scary. There can be a lot of uncertainty…
Emotions: Tips in Learning to Respond Well
What to do with emotions can be difficult, confusing, awkward and scary. Some people are hardly aware of their emotions. Others feel utterly overwhelmed. Are feelings important? Are there good and bad emotions? What kind of emotions are there? What are our feelings trying to tell us? Or are they just trying to trick us? Often people think…
An Affair: What Happens Now?
What happens now that the affair is exposed? The discovery of an affair can be highly traumatic. The betrayed partner may struggle with obsessive memories and wild uncontrollable feelings. If the couple comes to counselling, there is usually a consensus to ‘work things through’. This involves wrestling with questions like: What really happened? What else have you lied about? Why did you…
Anger Management: Looking Deeper
Anger management problems are so common. Anger, unresolved and unmanaged, can destroy relationships. I’ve always had a short fuse So often we can think that anger is the problem, when actually it is a expression of deeper issues. Those issues may be unrealistic expectations, lingering resentment, or feeling unloved or inadequate. Those issues may also be unresolved…