What is counselling?
Counselling is a professional activity which enables people to explore and resolve issues of a personal, psychological or interpersonal nature. The process enables people to develop self-understanding and insight to make changes in their lives.
Kathy possesses extensive counselling experience and specialist knowledge and experience in family and child protection matters. See ‘Credentials’ page.
How does counselling work?
Through regular meetings with a trained counsellor, the counsellor explores with you the difficulties and issues you may be facing. The process of exploring these issues together often helps you to see things more clearly and from a different perspective. The objective is to help you make a positive change.
An experienced counsellor can help you to:
• understand yourself and how you relate to others
• understand your relationships as they are now and how they change
• discover what you want from a relationship in the future
• find out what it takes to make your relationships work
• identify your feelings in a safe place
• cope with difficult life circumstances
• create positive family experiences.
Who uses counselling?
All sorts of people use counselling for any number of reasons such as when they:
• need help dealing with strong emotions such as grief, loss, sadness, anger, blame
• can’t move on from past relationships
• are in conflict with those close to them be it partners, parents, family, friends, colleagues or children
• want help to identify what isn’t working in their lives
• feel like their relationship needs work
• want an impartial, non-judgmental person to talk to about their problems.
What won’t Counsellors do?
Counsellors won’t:
• give advice
• be judgemental
• get emotionally involved
• diagnose mental illness (only appropriately qualified practitioners can do that)
• prescribe medication
• take sides or referee a disagreement.
What kind of counselling can we provide?
KP Consult provides counselling and where appropriate refers for counselling for:
• couples counselling
• individual counselling for those who wish to work one on one
• teens and child counselling for those going through a difficult time
• family therapy for a holistic approach where appropriate
Please note, your mediator cannot also be your counsellor. These roles are separate.
Is counselling confidential?
Yes. Nothing said will be revealed unless permission has been given and any notes taken are kept secure.
There are some circumstances under which confidentiality is limited or revoked due to legal, duty of care and protection requirements.
What do I do now?
Send an email to admin@kpconsult.com.au with your contact details.