WHO WE ARE
New Horizon Counselling is here to offer you a professional, ethical, sensitive, and confidential service, utilising a humanistic approach to counselling.
The main goals of humanistic counselling are to find out how you perceive yourself in the here and now, while acknowledging the influence of your past experiences. Humanistic counselling recognises your growth, self-direction, and responsibilities. Through our counselling sessions you will be provided with the opportunity to gain the tools you may need as a first step towards acceptance, and if you desire, change.
Long-Term Counselling
Some of the experiences we have in life cannot be resolved within 6 sessions. Some issues require exploration in more depth in order for clients to facilitate long term positive change. Longer term counselling would be offered to clients that are seeking change through a deeper sense of self-awareness or self-acceptance. Longer term counselling is not limited to a specific number of sessions. If clients felt that they may needed longer term counselling they would have the opportunity to review our relationship and our work together regularly, providing clients with an indication on the progress they are making.
Short-Term Counselling
Short term counselling would be suitable for clients who have a specific issue or life event that a clients would like to explore in our sessions. A limited number of sessions can often be all a client would need to explore the concern and gain understanding around the issue. A block of 6 or fewer sessions can be sufficient to provide with the understanding and coping strategies needed. Short term counselling would suit clients that have a clear sense of the changes they are wanting to make, by focussing therapy towards these specific goals.
Grief & Loss
Loss and grief are much misunderstood emotions in our society. It is not a matter of “getting over it”, not at all, and time is not always the great healer it is sometimes purported to be. The loss of someone we love can be utterly overwhelming, and while grief is often the result of death, the same feelings can sometimes occur after the loss of health, or loss of a job, or the loss of a relationship. Grief can make us feel as if we are going mad, and people often wonder if they may even survive it. Numbness, anger and despair are common. We are often forced to make major decisions and learn new skills at a time when even breathing seems to require effort.
There is no time-frame to grief. None. It is different for everyone. There is no fixed timeline and no right way to go about it. We are all individuals and every person needs to find their own way through it. Loneliness, sadness, rage and depression can threaten to overwhelm us. Those we are closest to may be struggling to cope themselves, or may be overwhelmed or confused by the intensity of your grief.
Working with Children and their Families
I provide a collaborative counselling service for families and children working together in facilative way to provide families with a safe,warm and welcoming environment to explore what ever difficulties maybe presenting Child clients and their families.
Children, young people along with their may be experiencing problems at school, issues with friends parents or other family members. There may be loss and grief or indeed life transitions or generally not feeling like themselves. New horizon counselling will provide the conditions that will allow children and family’s talk about how they feel, away from school and home life, counselling can help you get back to enjoying life. Children along with their families are helped in counselling by a supportive and non-judgmental approach, As with one to one and couples counselling what is talked about is totally confidential unless the counsellor is worried about the safety of the child or young person. Young clients have expressed that they feel happier after they see a counsellor and are better able to deal with their problems. Young people hate being talked down to. As a young person’s counsellor you have to be open and honest and give your clients time to open up. In some cases counselling can help them to concentrate better at school or college, or get on better with their friends and family.
HOW COUNSELLING CAN HELP YOU.
Counselling can help clients explorer feelings and emotions in many different ways. The uniqueness of each clients,
Issues, can that be addressed in counselling are feelings and emotions such as,
Anxiety
Low moods and Depression
Phobias
Anger
Bereavement, Grief
Loss and change
Relationship Difficulties
Sexual Issues
Confidence and Self-esteem
Health Issues
Faith and Spirituality
Obsessive Behaviours
Addictions
Self Harm
Eating Disorders
Trauma
Abuse
Counselling helps you to address these problems in a positive way by helping you to clarify the issues, explore options, develop strategies and increase self-awareness.
ABOUT ME
My name is Martin and I welcome you to New Horizon Counselling Northwich. I am a compassionate counsellor who strives to understand ‘your world’. I can help you explore your difficulties, and then help you acquire the new perspectives and skills you need to overcome them.
MY VALUES
- Confidential Environment – l am here to listen, providing clients with a warm, safe, and confidential environment in which to explore their issues.
- Family Support and Counselling Service – I have previously worked as volunteer counsellor within a Hospice Setting providing support to individuals, families and children, as well collaborating with Children’s support groups providing support with their losses and grief.
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