Counselling
Welcoming individuals, couples and families.
Counselling in Harrow, with daytime and evening appointments.
Adult Counselling
Counselling issues
Counselling for young people
Couples and Family Counselling
Individual Counselling
Counselling provides a safe space for paying careful attention to your thoughts feelings and emotions. There is time for us to get to the root of your distress, allowing you to gain greater clarity on what you truly want and need.
My hope is to establish a strong bond, ensuring you feel comfortable enough to talk about whatever matters. I believe that you know yourself better than anyone else. For this reason I will not attempt to direct you or impose my own views. I am here to form a relationship where you feel completely at ease and free from criticism and judgment. I am interested in how you experience your issues and the impact that relationships and life situations have on you.
While we are together I am actively listening to you and also noticing my own internal reactions.Self-awareness helps me to be authentic and open, allowing me to share my insights when this seems to be genuinely helpful.
As a client becoming more self-aware is often both a challenging and an empowering experience.You may find yourself connecting with your own profound resources and strengths. Through this process you are likely to discover more about yourself and how you relate to others.
My hope is to establish a strong bond, ensuring you feel comfortable enough to talk about whatever matters. I believe that you know yourself better than anyone else. For this reason I will not attempt to direct you or impose my own views. I am here to form a relationship where you feel completely at ease and free from criticism and judgment. I am interested in how you experience your issues and the impact that relationships and life situations have on you.
While we are together I am actively listening to you and also noticing my own internal reactions.Self-awareness helps me to be authentic and open, allowing me to share my insights when this seems to be genuinely helpful.
As a client becoming more self-aware is often both a challenging and an empowering experience.You may find yourself connecting with your own profound resources and strengths. Through this process you are likely to discover more about yourself and how you relate to others.
Counselling issues
- We can explore your feelings of depression, low mood, anxiety, panic, and anger.
- I will be present with you as you address the pain of bereavement, loss, and grief.
- I offer a safe, containing environment where you can explore the effects of trauma, abuse, bullying, racial prejudice, and antisemitism.
- We can work together on adjusting to events like illness, separation, divorce, redundancy, retirement, and children leaving home.
- We can explore difficulties in personal relationships, including conflict, estrangement, distancing, and loneliness.
- I can help you process and explore personal and emotional effects relating to world events.
- I provide a safe space where neurodivergent clients can explore life's hurdles, recognize personal strengths, and connect with your inner experience. If you are close to someone who is neurodivergent, we can explore your relationship with them.
- We can work on understanding and exploring the emotional impact of high sensitivity, recognizing, and acknowledging your needs.
- We can look at how you identify yourself, including culture, beliefs, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality.
- We can explore your spirituality, how you experience it, if you do, and what spirituality means to you.
Counselling for young people
The teenage years are a time of physical and psychological change. You may be tackling questions such as: Who am I? What do I want in life? How do I fit in with my friends and family?
Pressures can come from various sources including family breakdown, relationships, bullying, abuse, alcohol and drugs, exams, becoming independent, finding employment and the online environment. There are messages from the media (sometimes conflicting) about how to look, how to dress and how to be. For some people there are pressures to engage in sexual activity before feeling ready. At times life can feel worrying, stressful, desperate and out of control.
Counselling is an opportunity to speak with a professional about anything that is distressing, confusing and difficult to cope with. You may choose to have a few counselling sessions to help get through a hard time or you might benefit from long term support.
Pressures can come from various sources including family breakdown, relationships, bullying, abuse, alcohol and drugs, exams, becoming independent, finding employment and the online environment. There are messages from the media (sometimes conflicting) about how to look, how to dress and how to be. For some people there are pressures to engage in sexual activity before feeling ready. At times life can feel worrying, stressful, desperate and out of control.
Counselling is an opportunity to speak with a professional about anything that is distressing, confusing and difficult to cope with. You may choose to have a few counselling sessions to help get through a hard time or you might benefit from long term support.
Couples and Family Counselling
When there are problems in our relationships we can experience distress, anxiety and anger. Speaking with each other openly may become difficult due to underlying tensions and a loss of trust. Sometimes people have drifted apart and would like to have a greater sense of companionship and belonging as part of a couple or within their family setting.
We all bring our own history, personality, hopes, desires, culture and ways of coping to relationships. Difficulties can arise when there are differing opinions, needs and wishes. Daily pressures and life events can also have an impact. These may be associated with work, physical and mental health, family, parenting, friends, finances, bereavement, forming new relationships, the effects of drugs and alcohol, not having enough time, and more. Exploring a presenting issue can reveal further areas that need our attention.
Working with a qualified counsellor can help you to identify and address the causes of your difficulties and to understand each other's feelings and perspectives. There is time and space for each person to express themselves and to be heard. You can also improve upon how you communicate your views and emotions with each other. Changes and ways forward tend to emerge and you might reach decisions which can also be explored and discussed.
We all bring our own history, personality, hopes, desires, culture and ways of coping to relationships. Difficulties can arise when there are differing opinions, needs and wishes. Daily pressures and life events can also have an impact. These may be associated with work, physical and mental health, family, parenting, friends, finances, bereavement, forming new relationships, the effects of drugs and alcohol, not having enough time, and more. Exploring a presenting issue can reveal further areas that need our attention.
Working with a qualified counsellor can help you to identify and address the causes of your difficulties and to understand each other's feelings and perspectives. There is time and space for each person to express themselves and to be heard. You can also improve upon how you communicate your views and emotions with each other. Changes and ways forward tend to emerge and you might reach decisions which can also be explored and discussed.
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Paula Newman is a counsellor in Stanmore offering daytime and evening appointments.
You are most welcome to Get in touch if you would like to discuss counselling and to book an appointment.
