My Clinical Approach
First of all, I believe in transparency and client consent as a process. This means that I strive to be upfront and honest about what I do as a counsellor, and it also means that I check in with clients to ask about where they are at with their counselling process. You are the expert of your own life and situation, and I want to make sure that the support that I am offering will be a good fit for you.
There are three theories that I have identified as helpful for my practice, and these are client centred, narrative, and cognitive behavioural. Client centred means that I strive to be genuine and congruent with my clients. I am very interested in what it is like to be you so that I can fully empathize with your situation, and talk about using your existing strengths to problem solve together. The narrative approach uses the life stories that clients create for themselves. It is common for people to understand life through the stories they create, and they can use them to describe how they arrived in their current situation. These stories are important, and can provide you with a better look at the situation, and we can also work on what future stories will look like. Lastly, cognitive behavioural approaches help to identify thought patterns that may be contributing to distress. By increasing awareness of these unhelpful thought patterns, we can work on moving away from them and adopting more helpful ones to replace them.
There are three theories that I have identified as helpful for my practice, and these are client centred, narrative, and cognitive behavioural. Client centred means that I strive to be genuine and congruent with my clients. I am very interested in what it is like to be you so that I can fully empathize with your situation, and talk about using your existing strengths to problem solve together. The narrative approach uses the life stories that clients create for themselves. It is common for people to understand life through the stories they create, and they can use them to describe how they arrived in their current situation. These stories are important, and can provide you with a better look at the situation, and we can also work on what future stories will look like. Lastly, cognitive behavioural approaches help to identify thought patterns that may be contributing to distress. By increasing awareness of these unhelpful thought patterns, we can work on moving away from them and adopting more helpful ones to replace them.