You may be thinking about counselling for many reasons; I don’t work with just one specialist issue or demographic group.  I believe that most people can and do find counselling helpful.  That said, one or some of these below may strike a chord with you:

• You’re considering or going through a big change in life (eg: retirement, kids leaving home, career change, relationship breakdown, relocation, becoming a parent). Whether chosen or not, positive or negative, change can be hard.
• You’re trying to come to terms with a loss: a death, illness, life-changing health condition
• You’re feeling tearful, sad, desperate, unwell, or as if ‘I can’t go on like this’
• You may feel depressed, anxious, confused, stuck – and perhaps not knowing why, or what to do about it
• You may feel angry, or as if life’s not fair, or that you always get a raw deal
• You may have a feeling of not liking or valuing yourself very much.  Perhaps you have a habit of putting others’ needs first, or not expecting to be treated well
• You may be wanting to address or make sense of things that happened in the past. Perhaps abuse, trauma, difficult family relationships. Things that happened long ago can (and usually do) affect us all our lives
• You may be struggling in a relationship, perhaps with a partner or family member.  Or perhaps the same pattern occurs in lots of your relationships, and you’d like this to be different
• You may be wrestling with questions of meaning, what am I doing, what is the point, ‘is this… it?’ Counselling isn’t just about handling tragedy or crisis, though of course it is for that too. It can also be a positive step to finding meaning, following passions, finding fulfilment and understanding what gets in the way

Whatever your reason for seeking counselling, it can help you to understand yourself better, and to feel better equipped and confident to make the changes that are important to you.