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ABBIE Counselling Service (Potters Bar)

ABBIE Counselling is a professional service for individuals, couples and families faced with any emotional distress or relationship problems.
Integrative counselling will assess, support and offer guidance through a therapeutic relationship of (typically) three to twelve months duration, or as needed.

Integrative Counselling can help in many ways, including the following:

1. Identifying personal stressors in life and cognitively assessing less stressful alternatives, or by finding improved, wholistic ways of coping with the unavoidable.

2. Sensitively supporting the bereaved individual through the whole grief process until they can eventually come to terms with painful loss.

3. Enabling partners to communicate better and to find emotional and sexual fulfilment in their relationship. Straightforward advice given with programmes for psychosexual dysfunction. Specialised support for those faced with the particular problems of step-parenthood.

4. With assertiveness training, helping to empower the individual in order for him or her to make positive life changes and to develop creative potential.

5. Acknowledging and empathising with despair. Identifying old pain, conflict or helplessness as origins of depression and assisting the person to become autonomous and responsible for finding real meaning and value in life.

6. Encouraging victims of crime or abuse to unburden feelings of anger and violation and to apportion responsibility on to others, rather than accept personal blame or feelings of uncleanliness.

7. Child counselling, with parental consent, has been found helpful with nervous or depressed children, youngsters with low self esteem, school phobics or victims of bullying. Step-children and adopted children offered confidential support.

ABBIE Counselling Service draws upon the expertise on an experienced teacher, counsellor and psychologist.

Sylvia Knight BA. Diploma in Counselling and Guidance,
Diploma in Psychology, Diploma in Applied Psychology,
Diploma in Analytic Psychology.