Counselling
Raphael Counselling Service is provided in Midleton and Bishopstown area, Cork. My main focus is to support and empower clients with the use of techniques that help client’s deal with issues such as low self esteem, stress management, lack of assertiveness, trauma, depression, anxiety etc. My counselling approach uses a variety of approaches, Humanistic, CBT and Solution Focused Therapies and I work with adults.
I work with both the traditional talk therapy approach and in a holistic counselling approach. It is completely dependent on the approach the client is comfortable in working with and their individual wants and needs, sometimes it can be a mixture of both approaches.
Holistic Counselling
Holistic counselling is an integrative approach to therapy that treats the individual as a whole, addressing physical, emotional, mental, energetic and spiritual well-being.
This approach combines holistic counselling and healing, within an all – encompassing session.
I have been very fortunate to work with clients in counselling therapy for the last twelve years, gaining substantial varied general experience at the Westgate Counselling Centre and my own private practise, I was always very interested in working with client’s self empowerment, in whatever situation my clients found themselves in. During this time I found in working with clients that there comes a stage in their journey, for them to move forward in life, they need let go of the pain of the past. At these times this requires more than talk therapy and an emotional/energetic healing is also required to heal, finally let go and move on with their lives.
Holistic counselling involves looking from a bigger picture perspective to identify reoccurring themes and patterns that need to be reframed into empowering beliefs and programs, so the client can move forward to their highest potential.
Sometimes it can be difficult to achieve this level of understanding and healing just through talk therapy, a client may need an integrated healing protocol to support the process, to let go and move onwards. I combine counselling therapy with Integrated healing modality, which works at a holographic level to healing that offers deep and lasting relief from a wide range of emotional, mental, spiritual and energy imbalances.
What Holistic Counselling involves for the client:
- Initially we will work together to get a better understanding and background of what has been going on for the client.
- We endeavour to explore and identify recurring patterns/issues that they keep coming up against.
- Establish what it is appropriate for the client and that they are ready to finally move on from.
- We then look for and explore tools that may support them in learning how they can heal themselves from within, and what healthy habits / skills support the process.
- The process involves letting go of past blocks, pains, trauma, habits so the client can heal within and move forward.
- Our aim is for the client to regain a sense of inner contentment, confidence and emotional stability.
- To feel empowered to start living their lives fully and writing a new script of their own choosing.
Holistic counselling is a co creation process, where I as a therapist endeavour to provide the framework and hold a safe space, for the client when they are ready, to do the work within themselves so they can create what they want in life going forward.
This type of holistic therapy can help you to release:
- Self-Sabotage Programs
- Emotional Bruising
- Self- limiting beliefs
- Inner Child Healing
- Negative Energetic Cords
- Trauma / PTSD
If you’re looking for an approach to therapy that will help you heal on a deep level and create lasting change in your life, holistic counselling therapy can help with:
- Healing childhood wounds
- Reducing stress
- Live a life of meaning and purpose, rather than just getting by
- Build healthy and deeply fulfilling relationships
- Feel more balanced, authentic, and empowered in oneself.
- Learn to Truly love yourself and to live your life
For both counselling and holistic counselling the number of sessions a client will require varies, it is based on the individual and their specific requirements. Sessions can be on a weekly /bi weekly basis and each session last for 55 mins.
The session lasts 55mins and cost rate per each session is €60.00.