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About Newleaf

New Leaf Counselling offers confidential counselling sessions that focus on you and your requirements.

 

You can expect to be listened to without being judged, shown respect and empathy. Counselling is about giving you a safe place to explore and express your issues, concerns and fears offering you a journey of self discovery enabling you to realise and recognise what it is you need to grow and reach your full potential.

Counselling often helps you gain a better understanding of your past and present conflicts, to recognise, appreciate and use your own resources and consider possibilities for dealing with difficult situations. This may involve clarifying choices and opportunities for bringing about change; or alternatively may help you come to terms with those aspects of your life that you are unable or do not wish to change.

Counselling is about working together in an honest, non-judgemental and supportive relationship at a pace that you decide.

We offer counselling, which tends to be short-term and focuses on solving immediate issues, as well as psychotherapy, which tends to be longer-term and looks at issues that may have built up over time.  Your initial session will help us explore which is the most suitable approach in your case.

COUNSELLING SERVICES

Counselling can provide an opportunity to talk to someone who is trained to listen. It can help you make sense of the feelings experienced and enable you to see the difficulty in a more manageable way.

We provide an accredited professional service in a confidential and safe setting.

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Abuse

There are many different types of abuse.

While the more common forms include domestic violence, child abuse and emotional abuse, any behaviour towards someone that causes deliberate harm or upset can be considered abuse.

Individual counselling may benefit the victim. This can help them detach themselves from the partner’s behaviour. Counselling can also help restore self-esteem and re-examine healthy ways of relating.

There are often problems with taking responsibility for abusive behaviour. Often the victim will assume blame and the abuser may adopt a “poor me” stance.

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Family Issues

In family therapy, a therapist works with the whole family.

The therapist explores their views and relationships to understand the problems the family is having. It helps family members communicate better with each other.

You may be offered family therapy if the whole family is in difficulty. This may be because one member of the family has a serious problem that’s affecting the rest of the family.

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Relationships

Relationship counselling, or couples therapy, can help when a relationship is in crisis (after an affair, for example).

Both partners talk in confidence to a counsellor or therapist to explore what has gone wrong in the relationship and how to change things for the better. It can help couples learn more about each other’s needs and communicate better.

Ideally, both partners should attend the weekly hour-long sessions, but they can still help if just one person attends.

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Anxiety

Anxiety is a feeling of unease, such as worry or fear, that can be mild or severe.

Everyone has feelings of anxiety at some point in their life – for example, you may feel worried and anxious about sitting an exam, or having a medical test or job interview. During times like these, feeling anxious can be perfectly normal.

However, some people find it hard to control their worries. Their feelings of anxiety are more constant and can often affect their daily lives.

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Depression

Depression is more than simply feeling unhappy or fed up for a few days.

Most people go through periods of feeling down, but when you’re depressed you feel persistently sad for weeks or months, rather than just a few days.

Some people think depression is trivial and not a genuine health condition. They’re wrong – it is a real illness with real symptoms. Depression isn’t a sign of weakness or something you can “snap out of” by “pulling yourself together”.

The good news is that with the right treatment and support, most people with depression can make a full recovery.

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Bereavement

The death of a loved one can be devastating.

Bereavement affects people in different ways. There’s no right or wrong way to feel.

Talking and sharing your feelings with someone can help. Don’t go through this alone. For some people, relying on family and friends is the best way to cope.

If you don’t feel you can talk to them much – perhaps you aren’t close, or they’re grieving, too – a  counsellor can give you time and space to talk about your feelings, including the person who has died, your relationship, family, work, fears and the future.

Newleaf Schools Counselling Service

Newleaf provide a number of schools with a fully qualified counsellor, on-site, to undertake one-to-one sessions with pupils and teachers who feel would benefit from a talking therapy.

Sessions cater for the student’s and teachers individual needs and personalised action plans are produced which detail specific outcomes along with methods/strategies to be used to achieve these.

We deliver services to individual schools under Service Level Agreements, as well as services to schools in partnership with local authorities. All our counsellors are based in school and see children and young people on a weekly basis for individual and/or group counselling. The counsellors also work with parents and staff either in school or by agreement outside of school hours.