Counselling anxiety, depression, obsessive negative thought patterns, suicidal thoughts.

People of all ages, both women, men and, increasingly, young people are suffering from anxiety and depression, manifesting itself in obsessive, negative and suicidal thought patterns and resultant disturbing physical symptoms and behaviour. The mental, emotional and physical symptoms of anxiety can be a blight on people’s lives, exerting a restrictive control on both themselves and their relationships. Accompanying these feelings and symptoms can be a raft of issues such...

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Times When You Would Require Couple Counselling in Exeter

Choosing to get a couple’s Counselling in Exeter can sound like a big decision. It would certainly be; as admitting that things are not perfect in relationships requires a lot of courage. It can rather be scary to accept that something uneasy is creeping between the two of you. However, this fear lasts only up to the time till you are not aware of what the therapy is about. Finding...

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Marriage Guidance Counselling – Tips to find the Right Counsellor

A wedding is a special occasion where the souls of two individuals get united and together they start their new journey of life. While it is said that marriages are made in heaven, it is also true that not all the marriages turn out to be successful. Not all the couples feel happy or comfortable with their spouses. As couples, having conflicts with each other is quite an obvious thing....

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Counselling Sessions for Depression: Coming Out Of the Dungeon of Darkness

Counselling sessions for depression or ‘talk therapy’ as it is popularly known has been found to be an effective method for the treatment of clinical depression. Even though it may not itself treat the clinical condition of depression, alongside the medication, talking therapy can bring about wonderful results. Through an effective counselling session, the patient can find ways and methods of dealing with everyday stress inducers. Talk therapy has also...

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Relationships: When control becomes abuse

Everybody needs some control over themselves and their daily environment to enable a good level of mental and emotional health: powerlessness can lead to depression. This can sometimes be easier to achieve as a single person, in terms of being able to choose how to manage your time and home environment - many people choose this or to live apart from their partners. In relationships where partners live together, control...

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Relationships: New Year resolutions.

Relationships: New Year resolutions. One month into the New Year and you may be feeling leaner, fitter, healthier and happier. If your relationships are going well, the chances are you will be at least happy, which will make your objectives easier. If not, the pleasure and energy you put into life can be sapped away by friction and unhappiness – at home, at work or with family and friends. You...

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Low self-esteem

If you suffer from low self-esteem, you may or may not be aware of how far reaching the effects of it are on many areas of your life. If you are in a relationship with someone with low self-esteem, you may also find it has repercussions on a daily basis. Low self-esteem is considered to be a thinking disorder. Negative thoughts about ourselves are not based on reality but usually...

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Low self-esteem & confidence

Anxiety Counselling Low self-esteem is a thinking disorder - of thought processes which generate negative attitudes, emotions and behaviours not based on reality but on information and opinions from significant others in childhood. A person will think they are basically unworthy of positive responses from others – that they are primarily unlovable. This will then lead them, in an attempt to experience being lovable and worthy, into self-deprecating and compulsive behaviours. The...

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Separated Parenting

Divorce and Separation Counselling Unless one parent is a danger to a child, or incapable of being responsible for them, then both have parental responsibility for any children. Trying to stop a parent from having regular contact can have an adverse effect on the child as children need to have a relationship with both parents. If there was intense conflict during the separation process, one party can feel the other was to blame. Examples...

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Divorce & Separation Counselling

Counselling can help couples who have decided to separate by offering them an opportunity to speak about how they are feeling and what is concerning them as they progress through the separation process. Often, people feel able to express their feelings and wishes in the safety and calm of the counselling room in a way they are unable to do together because of heightened emotion and stress. In this situations...

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