Personal Counselling

What Is Counselling?

Counselling offers opportunities to explore how and why personal problems inhibit the possibilities life offers. These problems can appear in the form of depression, anxiety, lack of satisfaction at work or in a relationship, an inability to cope, eating disorders, or lack of self-esteem.

The counselling relationship can help you to see things more clearly and possibly from a different perspective. Counselling is both therapeutic and educational and takes a holistic view of an individual's life experience from birth through to hopes and fears for the future.

What We Offer

Our service can help you identify solutions to problems and difficulties that affect your personal and professional life. We provide a confidential space in which counselling sessions take place; these last 50 minutes and can be scheduled to fit into your diary.

Our Counselling Staff

3CPartners employs qualified psychotherapists and counselling psychologists in training. All staff are registered as members of accreditation bodies such as BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy) and/or HPC (Health Professions Council) /BPS (British Psychological Society). All staff adhere to BACP and HPC/BPS practice guidelines and ethical standards.

We are particularly skilled in the following areas:

Work Issues	Life Issues	Substance Misuse and Compulsive Behaviour
Conflict Job Dissatisfaction Racism and Discrimination Bullying Job Insecurity Burnout Change of Management Stress and Anxiety Unemployment	Stress Depression Anxiety and/or Panic Attacks Anger Management Suicidal Feelings Bereavement Major Life Changes Post Traumatic Stress Relationship Issues / Marital Problems Gender and Sexuality Sleep Related Disorders Loneliness Hopelessness	Alcohol Drugs (prescribed/recreational) Sexual Addiction Obsessive Compulsive Disorders

What Counselling Can Do

You will be offered a confidential setting within which to share feelings and anxieties with someone trained to listen. 3C Partners’ qualified counselling team use a variety of proven and effective approaches to help you ‘see things more clearly and possibly from a different perspective. Counselling is a way of enabling choices and change; or of reducing confusion.’…..In counselling sessions you can explore various aspects of your life and feelings, talking about them freely and openly in a way that is rarely possible with friends or family. Bottled up feelings such as anger, anxiety, grief and embarrassment can become very intense and counselling offers an opportunity to explore them, with the possibility of making them easier to understand’.

The results may enable you to achieve a much greater acceptance of yourself and others and can help you to gain a deeper understanding of the difficulties that you are facing. Counselling can also enable you to achieve enhanced self-awareness , new insights into your personality and way of operating in the world.

** BACP Information Service Guide to Training & Careers in Counselling & Psychotherapy November 2002