What is counselling?

Counselling is a professional relationship between counsellor and client and is usually conducted on a one-to-one basis. Counselling more ordinarily takes place within a consulting room, but these days counselling can be performed over the telephone or the internet in a confidential online consulting room.

Counselling is supportive and its aim is to encourage you to use of your own inner resources in dealing with various issues.  Sometimes just putting your problem into words helps and may enable you to find a new perspective.

Counselling aims to enable you to reach your self-determined goals through well-informed choices and through resolution of problems of an emotional and interpersonal nature.

Seeking counselling is not a sign of weakness, rather a positive desire to explore various paths to help yourself to understand, clarify and to overcome your problems. The end result leaving you better equipped to cope for the future.

At The Listening Sanctuary, counselling is offered face to face, online or by telephone. It is also possible to book in-house counselling packages of 5 days duration.

A person cannot be ‘sent’ for counselling and therefore it is regretted that counselling appointments cannot be booked by a third party.

For further information on what is available please see the
What's Available page.