Nigel 
February 18th,2010
It's time to talk to someone,but who?
What types of counselling are there?
Here’s a list of what I’ve come across.
My questions are:How does the counsellor expect to achieve results,what do they see as the source of my problems,and what approach do they believe is likely to help? Most formal methods of counselling will include two or more of these facets.
- The Relationship:you already have the resources within you to sort things out. All that is needed is that I create the right relationship between us.
- The Solutions:your problems have practical solutions which I will teach you. Some of this will include you learning new skills.
- Finding solutions:you need to develop problem-solving skills of your own.
- Memories:it’s all in your memories,especially the ones of your childhood.
- Repressed feelings:you’re lying to yourself about how you really feel.
- Consciously controlling thoughts:your natural way of creating and processing thoughts is damaging,so lets help you make some changes.
- Mental reprogramming:there’s a range of mental tricks other people just use naturally to modify how they think and react. You can learn their tricks.
- Mindfulness:the problem is your attitude to experiencing life from moment to moment.
- Hypnotherapy.
- Classic conditioning.
We’ll take these one at a time –which I guess will take nine ten posts,but you never know.
(A tenth facet added 4 April 2010 as a result of working on facet 4.)
