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| Welcome to TalkMeBetter.com the web site of Alexander Drummond BA Dip.Couns MBACP(Accred) Counselling and Psychotherapy.
Does it work?Counselling and psychotherapy can make a difference. Cognitive Behavioural therapy in particular has a clinically proven history and is the therapy of choice for organisations such as the NHS. That said, therapy can only offer you a possibility of change - the process of change sits in your hands. In a sense, the therapist's job is to escort you on that journey of change - not to tell you what to do or where to go.
What can therapy help with?Low self esteem and lack of confidence is probably the biggest underlying cause of the difficulties people experience - whether that is in their personal relationships or in the work environment. And yet, low self esteem often has its roots in our early experience, and whilst we cannot re-write history, we can develop strategies to overcome the difficulties and in time re-evaluate what learning we are taking from those experiences. Feeling down is a very natural human response to certain triggers or scenarios. Sometimes we need to give ourselves permission to feel appropriate sadness; sometimes we find ourselves seemingly locked in a loop of negative emotion and thought and unable to break free. Talking therapies can help us break the loop and move on to more healthy ways of being. Anger - the most important and perhaps least understood of the human emotions. It has great potential for both benefit and harm. When turned against the self it can be one of the most destructive forces in our lives and yet it often is merely a cover for other emotions we prefer not to acknowledge to ourselves. Therapy offers us the chance to understand ourselves better - to hear the inner voice and acknowledge those hidden thoughts and feelings. Once we have acknowledged them they will fight less hard to get out.
Contact InformationYou can call me on the numbers below. If I am with a client I won't take the call and it will go to voice mail. Please don't be put off by this - leave your details and good times to call and I will get back to you.
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