confidence-building
courses 2008

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I offer a counselling and therapy service in Leeds for individuals. Read on for more information, and phone me if you would like to make an appointment.

There are many reasons for seeking help. You may be feeling upset and distressed, or have problems in your relationships with others. You may have had a life-crisis like bereavement or redundancy, or may feel upset about something that happened some time ago. You may feel empty or lacking a direction, and that life makes little sense. Perhaps you want to have more confidence in your dealings with others.

Whilst on paper we can separate out distinct problem areas or issues - motivation, self-esteem, bereavement, abuse, sex, adoption, divorce etc - I see myself more as working with individuals, each with their own unique personality. I therfore try to avoid seeing someone as 'a bereavement case', for example, and am more concerned with seeing the whole picture of a person's personality, and how that is expressed.

It may however help you to know some of the issues that people have presented to me over the past 12 years when coming to me for help:

abuse (sexual, mental or physical)
adoption
anxiety and panic
assertiveness skills
bereavement (including cot death)
depression
divorce and separation
eating or food-use disorders
ethnic identity
guilt about past behaviour
intimacy
men's issues
motivation
relationship difficulties
self-esteem and self-confidence
sexuality
shyness
violence
workplace stress