Counselling
(Advice and help)
Counselling for people who are psychologically well but, but are ‘troubled’ (divorce, death in family, career dilemma, bullying etc.) will vary in content and duration according to the specific needs and feelings of the client, and may require as few as one or two sessions.
Counselling Services
We are taught how to read and write and do ‘ritmutik, but we are not taught how to ‘be’ - how to relate, how to be a lover, a spouse, a mother or a father. When we get it wrong - and it hurts - who do we blame? We aren’t taught how to make life decisions, how to be good communicators, how to influence people, how to be a team member. So many life skills seem too hard to teach or are deemed unimportant - so we aren’t taught and therefore don’t learn - we fumble along and learn from observation and mistakes.
Unfortunately, learning from mistakes is also something we weren’t taught how to do. There are so many life skills that could be past on, but aren’t. Every generation builds on the previous generation for technology and science that deliver ‘things’ to us, but we don’t build on life skills, instead resorting to reinventing the living behaviours and attitudes.
Ancient civilisations used to tell stories and show the next generation the ropes so they could thrive in that society. Nowadays we delegate that to schools, colleges and universities. In doing so, we prepare our youth to ‘make money’ and ‘to have’ rather than ‘to be’. The high divorce rate is testimony to our failure to adequately prepare each generation in skills that matter.
The good news is that we know how to reduce such problems by a huge percent - we know what the causes are and how to avoid them. Psychologists, sociologists, behavioural scientists and others have confirmed each others’ research about cause and effect of things like failed marriage and dysfunctional families. Appropriately trained psychologists and counsellors are able to pass on the accumulating knowledge and skills, as needed, in important ‘life’ areas.
In reality, most people don’t approach psychologists and counsellors until there is considerable personal distress. Personal distress can become genuine pain and have physiological consequences - racing heart, lack of sleep, poor concentration and so on. It can also lead to severe psychological consequences requiring extensive counselling plus specialist psychological therapy.
At Deltapoint we have adopted a saying - “The quality of my life is the quality of my conversations with myself and with others” - as though we invented it ourselves. We have further adapted it to emphasis the importance of knowing how to make high quality ‘decisions’ - “The quality of my life is the quality of my decisions”. Therefore - quality of life - depends on quality of decisions - depends on quality of conversations I have with myself and with others. It makes perfect sense.
My thoughts become my conversations. My conversations become my decisions. My decisions become my intentions. My intentions become my actions. My actions become my life story.
Because we only live once, as far as we know, it’s worth the effort to get it (conversations & decisions) as right as possible this time through. And since this is a free country - it’s your choice whether you do or not. Is now the time for you to start making higher quality decisions?
Areas of Counselling Practice
- Adult individuals
- Adult groups
- Couples
- Families
- Small-medium businesses
- Organisations
Delivery of Counselling Services
- Individual counselling/coaching
- Family counselling/coaching
- Group facilitation
- Lectures
- Seminars
- Workshops
Career guidance
- Difficulty coping with employment
- Difficulty in dealing with day-to-day issues in workplaces or life generally
- Difficulty in getting or keeping jobs
- Lack of confidence, or low self-esteem
- Interpersonal conflicts
- Problems getting along with people
- Dealing with emotional/psychological problems
- Dealing with psychological disorders of others
- Continuing distress resulting from violence or other traumatic experience.
Behavioural and ‘life’ help
- Relationship coaching
- Anger management
- Stress management
- Loss & grief
- Domestic violence
- Self esteem & confidence
- Adjustment to major change (e.g. illness, loss)
- Divorce – separation
- Grief & loss ( death, job loss, pet etc.)
- Parenting
- Adult recovery from childhood abuse
- Trauma
- Conflict
- Sexuality
- Assertiveness
- Relationship crises
- Stress
- Victims of Crime
- Work Related Issues – at home – at work
- Adult coping of sexual abuse as child
- Parent coping with sexual insult of child
Workplace help
- Employee assistance counselling
- Development coaching
- Executive coaching
Psychological help
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