We Validate Emotions
An important part of all counselling is to have the opportunity to vent difficult emotions. It is also important to feel heard, especially in the early stages of counselling. All emotions are valid and allowed and at WTW, we want to hear. Then, how we channel and dissipate those emotions is important and that’s where strategy comes into play.
We Focus On Strategy
Usually, strategies will be designed to try and achieve two main goals. The first is to support your emotional resilience and ability to cope immediately with your circumstances. Secondly, they will be aimed at ‘fixing’ the underlying issue as best it can be and working towards acceptance of the parts that can’t be ‘fixed’.
We Recognise That You’re The Expert In You
We are here to collaborate with you to work out solutions that are personalised to work for you. We may make strategy suggestions, but if you don’t feel that they will work for you, we want to know. We are likely to encourage you to try new strategies but will always listen if you tell us that you are genuinely uncomfortable to do so. We also encourage you to ignore a suggestion we make, if you genuinely think it will not work for you.
We Aim To Flip The Script
A tale of woe is no match for good strategies and empowerment to implement them. Often as early as the end of the first session, you will feel a bit better, a bit more resilient, a bit less overwhelmed. And that’s just the beginning! Look out world, here you come!
We Aim For Redundancy
Our solution-focused counselling is skills-based and we aim for you to gain a mental-health skillset that can be applied and reapplied without our help. We’re here, of course, if you feel like you need to talk further but we always aim to reduce your reliance on us and empower you to be self-reliant.
Our Therapeutic Techniques
Solution-Focused Therapy
Brief goal-focused therapy that uses positive psychology and evidence-based strategies to draw clients away from focusing on problems, in favour of discovering and implementing solutions to overcome them. This is the foundation of our approach, but we also use...
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Examination of the interplay between the client’s thoughts, emotions and actions and how positively changing one or more of these can create knock-on effects in the others to develop positive outcomes.
Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Encourages acceptance of hardship and making choices that facilitate action to endure and/or overcome difficulties. It encourages the use of mindfulness to overcome negative attitudes, thoughts and feelings and commit to choosing to improve.
Strengths-Based Therapy
A positive psychology approach that focuses on strengths, resilience and resourcefulness, rather than weaknesses, failures and shortcomings. The idea is to set up a positive mindset that encourages a sense of self-sufficiency, determination and mental-health autonomy.
Mental Health Education
Teaches clients about the mechanics of how good mental health is established and maintained using evidence-based information and strategies.
Motivational Interviewing
When a counsellor asks questions to help the client discover their internal motivations to change and empower them to let go of ambivalence and insecurities that may prevent change.