I'm assuming that you are visiting this site because you are feeling mentally distressed in some way. Here are 3 ideas that require no money which you can start today:
1. Exercise every day (even 15 minutes of doing anything that increases your heart rate will help)
2. Consume little or no drugs/alcohol
3. Mediate every day: spend just 5 minutes alone in a room (no noise if possible) and watch your breath going in and out
If you have been doing these for some time and the problem hasn't changed, then it is likely that there are some negative beliefs about yourself that are keeping that mental distress in place. This is what you can come to see me about, and we will work together on those beliefs - this will require internal work and possibly external changes in your life too.
I completely believe that counselling should be effective, that every session should feel worthwhile - ie contribute to the goals that you came to receive counselling for. As such I will regularly ask you for feedback about this so that we can make every session count!
When I realised that I wasn't the problem, but that depression was the problem, it shifted completely how I saw things and enabled me (together with the help of those 3 steps above) to finally move out of the dark tunnel I'd been living in for years.
I realised that the problem wasn't rooted somewhere deep within me, but was due to external factors that kept it in place. Some of these external factors are things we can't change - the world is unfair and will make life even more difficult if you, for whatever reason, do not fit into the dominant norm of whatever society or subculture you exist in. But some of these external factors are things we can change. The key is to identify which things you do have agency to change (or which you would feel empowered to challenge in some ways) and which things need to be accepted in order to have internal peace.
1. Exercise every day (even 15 minutes of doing anything that increases your heart rate will help)
2. Consume little or no drugs/alcohol
3. Mediate every day: spend just 5 minutes alone in a room (no noise if possible) and watch your breath going in and out
If you have been doing these for some time and the problem hasn't changed, then it is likely that there are some negative beliefs about yourself that are keeping that mental distress in place. This is what you can come to see me about, and we will work together on those beliefs - this will require internal work and possibly external changes in your life too.
I completely believe that counselling should be effective, that every session should feel worthwhile - ie contribute to the goals that you came to receive counselling for. As such I will regularly ask you for feedback about this so that we can make every session count!
When I realised that I wasn't the problem, but that depression was the problem, it shifted completely how I saw things and enabled me (together with the help of those 3 steps above) to finally move out of the dark tunnel I'd been living in for years.
I realised that the problem wasn't rooted somewhere deep within me, but was due to external factors that kept it in place. Some of these external factors are things we can't change - the world is unfair and will make life even more difficult if you, for whatever reason, do not fit into the dominant norm of whatever society or subculture you exist in. But some of these external factors are things we can change. The key is to identify which things you do have agency to change (or which you would feel empowered to challenge in some ways) and which things need to be accepted in order to have internal peace.
If you're not 100% sure about counselling, I'm more than happy to have a no-obligation phone chat with you to discuss any questions or concerns you might have.
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