Wisdom First Counselling

The aim of counselling is to assist clients gain insight into their lives, accept responsibility and control of their choices and actions, and overcome any barriers that might impede their personal decision-making. In short, counselling enhances the clients' independence and capacity to respond positively to life's challenges and to live with ongoing success in the future.

What can you expect as a client?

• Hour-long private consultations.
• The counsellor who will actively listen to your story.
• The counsellor will not judge you as a person. The counsellor will have a genuine interest in you and will seek to assist in attaining a positive outcome for you.
• Therapy will terminate when you are satisfied with the outcome or at a time when the counsellor determines there to be no further benefit in continuing counselling.
• The number of sessions required varies. Sometimes therapy can be brief: 2 or 3 sessions. In other cases it can last considerably longer.

• You are expected to participate and share in the therapy process.
• Sometimes you will be asked to do some homework for example, practice skills, watch a video, read some information, listen to a tape, and keep a journal.