Metro Counselling / CBT

Which clinic do we offer this service from?

Metro Manchester

What is Counselling?

Counselling is a way of addressing problems by talking them through with someone who is able to be supportive, but who is not directly involved in the situation. A Counsellor will:

• Give you an opportunity to talk in confidence about whatever is troubling you

• Enable you to express your feelings

• Help you to explore and understand your difficulties

• Help you to try and find ways of managing these more effectively

Although it may sometimes be appropriate to offer advice or guidance, the emphasis is very much on enabling you to achieve change rather than telling you what to do.

What is CBT?

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy is a “Here and Now” approach to understanding and overcoming psychological problems. How we think, feel and behave interact together to maintain emotional disturbance. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy endeavours to understand this interaction and enable us to make changes in how we think, feel and behave.
When anxious or depressed for example, cognition (thinking) tends to focus on excessive worry about things. In anxiety, the person may expect the worst to happen, or misinterpret anxiety symptoms for physical illness. In depression, the person may believe they are bad, or have done something wrong, although this is groundless.
The combination of anxious or depressed thinking with anxious or depressed feelings will lead people to alter their behaviour in an effort to feel better. This means a person is likely to avoid situations where they have felt uncomfortable before or where they predict they will feel uncomfortable again or a person may carry out repeated actions because those actions reduce anxiety. A person may experience an inability to carry out normal tasks because they feel so low.