What is Counselling?

The BACP website describe Counselling in the following way :

“Counselling and psychotherapy are umbrella terms that cover a range of talking therapies. They are delivered by trained practitioners who work with people over a short or long term to help them bring about effective change or enhance their wellbeing.”*

Options counsellors are professionally trained in a range of counselling backgrounds.  The approach adopted will be agreed during the initial session or specific to an individual issue.

• Integrative
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
• Humanistic
• Person centred
• Gestalt
• Physcodynamic
• Transactional Analysis (TA)

A non-judgemental, nurturing, supportive and encouraging approach is used by our counsellors in accordance with the standards and ethics of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy  (BACP).

^{*used with the permission of the BACP}