Individual Counselling in Hertford

A confidential space to explore your thoughts, feelings and personal challenges

Individual counselling offers a confidential space to explore your thoughts, feelings and personal challenges with the support of a counsellor. You may be dealing with anxiety, low mood, bereavement or changes in your life that feel difficult to navigate alone.

At Hertford Counselling Service, our counsellors provide one-to-one support tailored to your individual circumstances, helping you develop a deeper understanding of yourself and explore possible ways forward. Sessions are available face-to-face in Hertford, with online appointments also an option.

How can Individual Counselling help?

Human beings have quite clearly wanted and needed to express their emotional experience throughout time. People have historically connected through stories, songs, dance, myths and rituals. In many communities individuals have been given the task of container for the community’s emotional struggles. Shamans, tribal elders, confessionals are all examples. As the western world moved into industrialisation these traditional communities based on extended families have disappeared.

Without the capacity for individuals to come together and share their inner world with others in a meaningful way a sense of isolation and alienation can be painfully felt. When this isolation is exacerbated by experiences of trauma or overwhelming pressure from internal or external pressures then parts of the psychic self can collapse into symptoms we recognise as mental distress.

Finding the right approach for you

Counsellors may draw on different therapeutic approaches depending on their training and the needs of the person they are supporting. These can include psychodynamic, integrative, humanistic and person-centred approaches. You can discuss the approach your counsellor uses and ask questions about how it may fit your circumstances.

Sessions are usually weekly for 50 minutes and, where possible, are maintained at the same day and time each week. Within these protected sessions the client can share and explore without judgement.

What to expect from Individual Counselling

Your first appointment is an opportunity to talk about what has brought you to counselling, what you would like help with and any questions you have about the process. You can share as much as you feel comfortable with. It is also a chance to consider whether you feel comfortable working with your counsellor and whether you would like to continue.

We provide some paperwork to you which includes a contract that outlines our code of ethics, confidentiality and fees agreed. The sessions will always be with the same counsellor, in the same room at the same location. There may be the choice of having online sessions rather than face to face but this can be discussed.

You may choose to attend a fixed number of sessions or work in a more open-ended way, meaning that you continue to attend each week until such time that you feel that counselling is no longer needed.

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