Glen Gibson Counselling Psychotherapy

My Counselling Approach

My role as a counsellor is to get to know you and for you to develop a greater understanding of yourself in a safe, confidential, supportive and jargon-free environment - a space for you to explore what you want to explore. Therapy may include exploration of how you feel, think and act. Working at your own pace, I offer guidance and support so fresh ways of seeing yourself, the options and making choices become available. Alongside the issues you bring to counselling, we may look at where you would like to be in your life and what prevents you getting there, so far.

I recognise that no one theory holds the truth, and that deep and lasting change is possible at any stage of life. Counselling is not an exact science, we are infinitely complex with many possibilities, and I do not hold a “one size fits all” approach. We are all hampered by how the limits of language, don't quite explain the full depth of our experiences and my role is to find out about you. My experience and training as counsellor includes working with a range of approaches and strategies. Most people have found that our way of working together and the quality of the therapeutic relationship is the most important factor. Many also value talking to a counsellor as someone independent, who isn't too close and can hear you without a vested interest or preconceptions.

Specialties: counselling, psychotherapy, relationship counselling, marriage therapy, anger management, stress management, confidence, self-esteem, addictions help