Ray Carrick Counselling and Therapy in Edinburgh
At it's most basic, counselling is a process of looking at yourself with someone's help. Most people find that by working with someone else they get much more clarity and a different perspective on themselves and their life. We're all very good at NOT looking at things because they are too painful or they don't fit with how we want to be or how we think we should be. In counselling, working with someone else makes it easier to look at ourselves and our lives more clearly - to see how it really is for us and that can be the first step towards change whether that change is inside us or outside in our lives. Conselling provides a safe space to look at your life: how you it is now, how you got here and where you want to get to.
Counselling can be effective in helping with different problems such as: anxiety, depression, bereavement, issues stemming from childhood, problems with anger, relationship difficulties or simply when your life feels stuck or hard to get through and you do not know how to move forward.
I work with each person as an individual. I don't believe in one-size-fits-all solutions. My hope is that coming to counselling helps you to resolve your current difficulties and also helps you in learning how to work with yourself in the future. We all face difficulties in our lives, learning how to work with them seems worthwhile. Each of us has resources within us to change and develop but these resources can often be blocked or hindered by current circumstances or unresolved issues from the past that we still carry. Counselling can help you resolve these issues and leave you freer to change.