About Insight Counselling Service – Human happiness and well-being comes from fostering and maintaining a healthy belief system of self and others. We relate to others with the same degree of love, compassion, respect and dignity as that which we afford ourselves. Living in this way brings us the inner peace and strength needed in order to be better able to cope with difficulties that arise in our everyday lives.
Negative life experiences, or what is commonly termed ‘baggage’, can spill over and influence our current day thoughts, feelings and decision-making. This can very often result in a sort of psychological and emotional paralysis or feeling of being stuck, preventing a person from moving on to live a fulfilled and happy life. We all get ‘down’ from time to time, but if a cycle of discontent, confusion, unhappiness, anger, loneliness, sadness or other negative emotions persist over a long period of time, then there is a need for change – a need for counselling.
Effective practicing therapists are constantly developing their counselling skills and knowledge base and an important aspect of my ongoing training is in the use of CBT or Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Here at Insight Counselling Service, CBT practitioners believe that our thought patterns influence the way we feel and in turn how we behave. (e.g. an advert on television for chocolate or cake will invariably result in a trip to the shop or kitchen fridge!) This therapy explores our individual thinking style and challenges our perceptions and consequent belief systems. These in turn are measured up with the evidenced-based reality of a specific issue.
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