Counselling Norwich

How long does counselling take to work?

Counselling sessions usually take place once a week, for 50 minutes. At Reset Mind, you can have as little or as many sessions as you need. Generally, at least six sessions work well to allow time to build trust, so you can discuss things more freely.

What happens in the first counselling session?

Your counsellor will begin by introducing themselves, establishing boundaries for the sessions and telling you about the way they work.

You’ll run through an initial consultation to find out more about you, why you’re considering therapy and what you’d like to work on. If you’re not sure what it is yet, don’t worry, I will help you work that out.

Feel free to ask me anything you want to know about how things will work in each session and what is expected of you.

What happens in the following sessions?

Your counsellor will help you work out what you’d like to focus on. It will mostly be conversational and led by you, your counsellor will listen but may ask you questions that may help you to uncover certain aspects of life that may be linked to the issue such as your childhood or your relationships with friends and family. You’ll be given the space to explore your thoughts, emotions, behaviour and topics that you find difficult. If you have a specific issue, your counsellor can focus on these with you and might suggest using some other techniques such as Interpersonal Therapy (IPT) or Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to help you process things and make changes you wish to make in your life.

Sometimes there may be silences and that’s ok as it gives you both time to think. It’s also ok to feel a little uncertain about speaking to someone you’ve only just met, but don’t worry, after a session or two this feels fine.

What can counselling help with?

• Depression and anxiety
• An upsetting physical health condition and coming to terms with this life change
• Difficult emotions such as low self-esteem or anger issues
• Work-related stress, redundancy, or reaching retirement
• Difficult life events such as a death, abortion, miscarriage, a relationship breakdown, moving house or marriage
• Coming to terms with sexual identity

Is counselling confidential?

Everything you say is to your counsellor is confidential. However, there are reasons when confidentiality may be required to be broken, for example:

• Crime, terrorism, drug trafficking, money laundering, child protection, allegations of rape or sexual abuse
• Prevention of serious harm to the client or to others
• Clients at risk of suicide or serious self-harm