Astrug Counselling

Hi!

I'm Ines. Through personal therapeutic care I will help you to cope and process the challenges you are currently facing.

I am a fully qualified counsellor, specialised in humanistic, person-centred therapy, and an Accredited Member of the British Association of Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP).

I provide counselling for private clients and am a recognised provider for Bupa and several leading Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) providers, including Spectrum.Life, Health Assured, HA | Wisdom Wellbeing and TELUS Health & Workplace Options.

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Hi!

I'm Ines. Through personal therapeutic care I will help you to cope and process the challenges you are currently facing.

I am a fully qualified counsellor, specialised in humanistic, person-centred therapy, and an Accredited Member of the British Association of Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP).

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Do you feel?

You struggle to think positively about yourself and your life

You struggle to move on from traumatic events or memories

Work-related concerns and challenges that may be causing you significant stress

You feel lonely or misunderstood

A recent bereavement weighs a heavy stone of grief

You struggle to assert yourself in your relationships

You feel so overwhelmed sometimes that it’s hard to know who you really are

You feel so anxious, that you feel paralysed

You feel too exhausted to cope

Get in touch & let’s have a chat to see how can we work together for you to feel better!

It's hard to imagine what to expect from therapy exactly, especially without prior experience. Let’s see some examples of what we may work on:

Prioritise: often, when we feel overwhelmed, there are a number of topics / areas / feelings - let’s break them down, take one at a time.

Filter: Separate bigger issues or long-term problems from what we can deal with today. Start with what we can focus on in the present to make a difference and then look at broader principles, or patterns, for the future.

Investigate: What are the sources of my anxiety or low mood? Did I always have those beliefs / attitudes / feelings? How do I process difficult / traumatic experiences? How do I move on?

Look at attitudes: What is my relationship to myself? How does it differ from my relationship to other people? How do I communicate with myself and with others?

Responsibilities: How do I see personal responsibility? Am I taking responsibility for other people or do I avoid responsibility? Do I know my boundaries?

Reprogram: look at what I am telling myself - blame, labels, guilt, judgements. We will redefine those thoughts to include self-empathy, self-awareness, understanding of personal needs, conflicting needs or mixed feelings, and ways to balance and/or reconcile those.

Recharge: How do I care for myself? What self-care is best for me?

Counselling is a process, one step at a time. As a counsellor I will support you in finding clarity and the best solutions for what you need. Having experienced a variety of challenges myself, I don’t judge a person’s choices and situations. I am acutely aware of how difficult it is sometimes to find the best coping strategy, healthy boundaries, self-confidence and the right measure of assertiveness. The counselling process will focus on working through what is foremost for you at the moment, aiming towards improvement, meaning, clarity, healing. We will work together to develop a clear goal for your therapeutic journey, develop an understanding of your needs and challenges, and a practical vision in the strategies to achieve them.

Yes they are. However in cases of serious risk of harm, safeguarding issues or court orders, I might be forced to breach confidentiality. More details we will discuss in our first session and in our contract.

Of course. I also offer a 20 minute get-to-know session, telephone or zoom, where we will discuss any questions and concerns, your needs and expectations and how can we make therapy work for you in the best possible way. This session is free of charge.

I will only use your contact details to respond to your query, or should we agree to work together, to get in touch with you. No data is shared with third parties and any contact details are stored as safely as possible in password protected devices.

Get in touch & let’s have a chat to see how can we work together for you to feel better!
ines@astrugcounselling.uk
07596853235

Free Initial Consultation

I offer a 20 mins initial consultation free of charge where we will discuss any questions and concerns, your needs and expectations and how can we make therapy work for you in the best possible way.

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“You can't comprehend the entire version of your life in a single day. But you can always use the opportunities of today to build a better tomorrow.”

Anon

“Ines’s sessions were really calming. I felt that without doing much, she planted a seed and I started talking and discovering things about myself.”

“I felt a real connection with her as a therapist; it gave me the support I needed in order to move forward and to heal.”

“I’ve never had anyone listen to me in the way Ines did. She was calm and non-judgemental, allowed me to be open and develop myself to become what I really want to be.”