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Anxiety
Anxiety is one of the most common reasons people come to therapy. It effects peoples mental health but it also can manifest itself within the body, such as feeling sick, feeling light headed or getting a dry mouth.
Anxiety can effect how people eat, sleep, socialise and how they view themselves.
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What is Anxiety?
Anxiety is an emotion people experience, connected to stress, fear and worrying. It particularly becomes a problem when people experience it most of the time and begins to effect their day to day life.
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Panic Attacks
Panic attacks occur when someone feels a sense of threat and the brain puts the body into fight or flight mode. The heart rate increases, creating an overwhelming sense of anxiety, fear and panic.
This mechanism was designed to protect us from predators in the wild, however, in modern society, the brain now perceives threat to be more conceptual, some examples could be but are not limited to, our financial situation, our educational grades, our relationships or the fear of having a panic attack.
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Can You Die From A Panic Attack?
Panic attacks can be very frightening and people can feel like they can’t breathe and they are going to die.
It’s important to note, that as scary as they can be, no-one has died directly from having a panic attack, and that it is very possible to manage them to the point that they cease to happen.
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Relationship Problems
Relationship problems can be incredibly complex. They may be to do with a romantic relationship but might also be between friends or family members.
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Do You See Couples?
Unfortunately, I’m not currently seeing couples. This may change in the near future.
Can You See Me and My Partner Separately?
Unfortunately, it would be a conflict of interest to see both partners in a relationship. I would recommend that if the other partner also wants therapy, that they find another therapist.
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Difficulties at Work
Difficulties at work could be to do with how you are feeling about your current job or career, or it could be to do with a conflict with another member of staff.
It could also be issues at university or to do with how you are coping with retirement.
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Will You Mediate My Work Situation?
I’m a qualified counsellor and psychotherapist. Everything we talk about will be confidential and will not be discussed with your work or university. My role is to support you through your difficulty. Unfortunately, I cannot be involved in any mediation.
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Identity
Identity issues can arise in different forms, it could stem from a career change, a change in relationship, it could be to do with your sexuality or your gender.
What ever the identity issue you are facing, it’s likely that you don’t feel you are being authentic in the way you want to live your life.
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Is Your Identity What You Do?
Many people take a great sense of identity from their chosen career and this can become a huge part of their life.
Peoples sense of identity could also come from their values, gender, sexuality, culture, relationships or their geographical location.
Peoples sense of identity is very personal, multi-factored and there is no one right way to identify.
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Low Confidence
Low Confidence can effect work, your relationships and how you feel about yourself. Therapy can help you make positive changes in your life to becoming a more confident person.
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What are the Signs of Low Confidence?
Low confidence can become an issue if when you feel it inhibits the person you want to be. This could be to do with achieving your career goals. It could be having a lack of boundaries in relationships or ability to say no to people.
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Trauma
First discovered in veterans returning from WW1, the understanding of trauma has developed past the concept of shell shock and PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) only affecting soldiers in combat.
Trauma can occur to anyone who’s life is threatened, or put at risk of serious harm, or if someone they know is put at risk of serious harm.
It could happen in one single event or over a sustained period of time.
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What are examples of Trauma?
Trauma can come from many scenarios and life events but common events that cause trauma are war, natural disaster, rape, sudden bereavement, sexually or physically abusive relationships, life threatening accidents and witnessing acts of violence. However, this is by no means an exhaustive list.
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Depression
Around 5% of adults suffer with depression, that is estimated to be close to 280 million people worldwide. Talking Therapies have shown to be effective in the treatment of depression by themselves or combined with medication.
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What is Depression?
Depression is when someone’s mood is very low on a consistent basis and begins to affect their everyday life.
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Bereavement
Bereavements can affect people no matter how old they are or where they come from. It’s incredibly personal and can be very difficult to process. There is certainly nothing wrong with reaching out for help and looking for someone to talk to about it.
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How Long Does It Take to Grieve?
There is no right way to grieve, and no time limit on how long it should take people. Everyone has different ways of processing and each person has to find their own way of coping with bereavements.
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Stress
With so many aspects to modern day living, stress can creep into peoples lives silently and with ease. Its affects come not only on our mental health but on our physical health and also our relationships.
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What is Stress?
Stress can manifest itself in different forms depending on the person, but stress tends to come when people don’t feel in control or feel threatened.
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Issues arising from Neurodiversity
Being dyslexic myself, I understand what it’s like to grow up with a neurodivergent way of processing.
It can sometimes make communication, processing information and managing emotions difficult.
Working together we can identify where neurodiverse processing is a factor and work on strategies to help move you towards the goals you’d like to achieve.
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What is Neurodivergence?
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Personal Development
Counselling isn’t just for people who are struggling. If you’d like to move further towards the person you want to be, counselling can help you achieve personal growth.
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What is Personal Development?
Personal Development could be anything from a change in how you see yourself, to finding time to do the things you want to do, to learning to relate to people in a different way.
If you have an idea of something you’d like to work on, that’s not mentioned above, book a session and we can work together on helping you achieve your personal development goals.
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