For Clients


FOR CLIENTS

Counselling is a carefully arranged opportunity for you to talk through issues that are affecting your life with someone trained to help you. You may find a counsellor through the National Health Service (ask your GP), through a Voluntary Organisation or
by going to a counsellor in private practice. You should have a clear arrangement (or contract) with the counsellor. This will make clear such matters as how many sessions you will have, how much they will cost and what level of confidentiality you can expect. It should also tell you how to complain if you are not satisfied.

Counselling sessions might involve just you and a counsellor, or they might involve others such as a spouse, partner or other family members. Counsellors use different methodologies or models for their counselling depending on their training and what they find to be effective. They also have different ways of viewing the World. Christian
counsellors are those who have a Christian worldview. Because of their faith, they would say that they are counselling with hope underlying what they do. They do not make any assumptions or have any requirements about your beliefs and values and will not press their faith onto you.