The counsellor is there to support you and respect your views. They won't usually give advice, but will help you find your own insights into and understanding of your problems. Counselling can often involve talking about difficult or painful feelings and, as you begin to face them, you may feel worse in some ways.
However, with the help and support of your therapist, you should gradually start to feel better. In most cases, it takes a number of sessions before the counselling starts to make a difference, and a regular commitment is required to make the best use of the therapy. During your counselling sessions, you'll be encouraged to express your feelings and emotions.
By discussing your concerns with you, the counsellor can help you gain a better understanding of your feelings and thought processes, as well as identifying ways of finding your own solutions to problems. It can be a great relief to share your worries and fears with someone who acknowledges your feelings and is able to help you reach a positive solution.
You may be offered counselling as a single session, as a short course of sessions over a few weeks or months, or as a longer course that lasts for several months or years. A good counsellor will focus on you and listen without judging or criticising you. They may help you find out about how you could deal with your problems, but they shouldn't tell you what to do.
For counselling to be effective, you need to build a trusting and safe relationship with your counsellor. If you feel that you and your counsellor aren't getting on, or that you're not getting the most out of your sessions, you should discuss this with them, or you can look for another counsellor.
Alternatively, you could pay to see a private counsellor. Many counsellors and counselling organisations offer a sliding scale of fees where the more sessions you have, the cheaper it becomes.
As counselling involves talking about sensitive issues and revealing personal thoughts and feelings, your counsellor should be experienced and professionally qualified. Different healthcare professionals may be trained in counselling or qualified to provide psychological therapies.
These include:. In the government announced plans to make psychological therapies widely available on the NHS. This is because they've been shown to be effective treatments for common mental health conditions. As a result of the IAPT programme, evidence-based psychological therapies can now be accessed through:. IAPT services offer a range of psychological therapies, including individual and group-based therapy.
While a group may seem a bit intimidating at first, many people find that once they've overcome this worry, they really benefit from sharing and meeting with other people.
Your counsellor will discuss the Framework for Counselling with you including issues of confidentiality, length and timings of sessions and payment. This framework provides a secure and confidential agreement between you and your counsellor.
Whilst your counsellor will have been provided with information gathered from the assessment session, this first counselling session is for you to start building a therapeutic relationship with your counsellor and begin exploring in more depth your concerns and difficulties. We offer weekly sessions of 50 minutes each. The type of counselling we offer is one where the relationship between the client and counsellor is central to the counselling sessions and where a greater understanding of your concerns can be achieved.
It is hoped that weekly ongoing sessions will benefit you by allowing you to begin to trust and open up to your counsellor more effortlessly. If you have any questions about your counselling sessions or concerns regarding your application please contact our administration team so they can support you further. We welcome all questions so that you can be fully informed regarding the counselling process and what to expect from the experience.
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A counsellor is not a medical doctor and cannot prescribe medication of any kind. Do not assume that all counsellors are professionally qualified. There is no law in Australia that requires a person who provides a counselling service to have either qualifications or experience. This means that people without training or skills can call themselves counsellors or psychotherapists. A trained counsellor has usually spent three or more years studying counselling at university, often at postgraduate level, or has an equivalent level of training in another accredited higher education institution.
It is important that you find a counsellor with the appropriate training and experience who suits you and your needs, and whom you feel comfortable with.
Not all counsellors have the same approach and you may need to try more than one counsellor to find one that best suits your needs. Some counsellors are covered under a Medicare rebate and you may get your session covered under Medicare or pay a small gap fee. To be entitled to a Medicare rebate you must get a mental health care plan from your doctor. This means your doctor will assess, through a questionnaire and knowledge of you, whether you would benefit from mental health support.
A mental health care plans provides you with up to 10 sessions of counselling per year with a Medicare rebate. Medicare does not provide rebates for all counsellors. You need to ask the individual counsellor.
You may be eligible for a partial rebate on your private health insurance, depending on your policy. Your first session will help you to decide whether this counsellor is the right one for you.
Questions to ask yourself include:. It is reasonable to ask the counsellor at the end of the first session for an estimate of how many sessions they think you will need. However, remember that this is only an estimate. Some problems can be successfully resolved in a few sessions. In other cases, talking about the particular problem with the counsellor may bring up deeper, unresolved issues that need further exploration.
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