Professional Counseling

Karen Gosling provides a professional cognitive-behavioral-therapy (CBT) counseling service for individuals, couples, and family groups. Counseling is conducted face-to-face, by telephone, email, or teleconference.

In CBT counseling, through discussion you gain clarity about the negative emotions you feel (possibly affecting your behavior) and an understanding of why you feel what you feel. You can often then alter distorted thinking and/or make decisions about what you can do to affect the way you feel. Talking things through usually makes it clearer about what you want to do with your issue.

Over several sessions you will learn cognitive strategies to manage negative emotions and how to respond to others in mature and appropriate ways. You will experience the impact this changed behaviour has on your self-esteem and on your relationships, both at home and at work.

If Karen assesses that a further referral is indicated, for example, to a doctor for medication or psychiatrist for diagnosis, this will also be discussed.

Karen also provides a corporate EAP counseling service for CEOs, senior level executives, and staff in organizations.

How can counseling help me? How will I benefit?

Often people comment that they feel better after just one session. This is entirely possible as:

1. You have had an opportunity to ventilate feelings and perspectives and not be judged.
2. The Counselor gives explanation to and normalises the feelings you are having.
3. You leave believing that you have just taken the first step to feeling better long-term.

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