Actuality Counselling's services can be accessed online from almost anywhere in the world. Online therapy is becoming increasingly popular and is especially helpful if you have restricted mobility, live in an isolated area, are away from home, have a busy schedule or find working online less intimidating.
"It would be a poor result of all our anguish and our wrestling, if we won nothing but our old selves at the end of it"
George Eliot in 'Adam Bede' (1859)
If you are comfortable using IT and have the necessary equipment, online work offers a convenient way for you to access counselling. You will need access to a computer, a webcam and a broadband connection. Prior to our first session, I will provide you with details of how the process works.
Many people find online therapy via video preferable to telephone counselling or working with chat- and text-based forms of therapy which rely on the written word and do not allow you and your therapist to see each other. Please note that I do not offer counselling via e-mail, chat or telephone.
Online counselling may not be appropriate for you if you feel uncomfortable working with computers, if you have a chronic mental illness requiring intense treatment or if you have serious intentions of harming yourself or others (in which case you are advised to contact the Samaritans).
Tel: +44 (0)7941 488 550
e-mail:actualitycounselling@gmail.com
"... access counselling from anywhere in the world."
Online session
"... All of us, but especially children, need ... confidence that others will know, affirm and cherish us. Without that we can't develop a sense agency that will enable us to assert: 'This is what I believe in; this is what I stand for; this is what I will devote myself to.' As long as we feel safely held in the hearts and minds of the people who love us, we will climb mountains and cross deserts and stay up all night to finish projects. Children and adults will do anything for people they trust and whose opinion they value."
Bessel van der Kolk in 'The Body Keeps the Score' (2014)