Angela Brooke Counselling & Clinical Supervision

MBACP Registered Counsellor • BA Hons • Dip Integretive Counselling
• Cert Clinical Supervision
  • “The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

    Carl Rogers
  • "I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time"

    Anna Freud
  • "The best way out is always through"

    Robert Frost

About Counselling

Counselling can help us to better understand why we feel the way we do and why we do the things we do. This is particularly helpful when our feelings and behaviour are causing distress. On a practical level it can help us understand why we might eat too much, stay with partners who abuse us, say yes to things we don’t want to do etc. The list goes on…

Counselling can help us to have some insight into why we might be feeling depressed, sad or anxious and to find ways of managing and letting go of these feelings so that we can move forward.

People often avoid seeking help when they feel depressed, anxious or sad because they believe that they are somehow to blame for these feelings or that there is something wrong with them or that they are weak. Talking to an empathic counsellor can help us to re evaluate some of our more persecutory beliefs such as “this is all my fault” or “ there is something wrong with me “. This,in turn,can lead to an increase in compassion for the self , self- awareness and empowerment and a decrease in depression, sadness and anxiety.



Counselling is not a magic cure and does not work for everyone but the experience of being properly listened to and therapeutically ‘held’ can be beneficial to those who have hitherto struggled to be heard. Equally, having someone who is there for you consistently and regularly can begin to alleviate and bring into awareness the distressing feelings experienced in adulthood associated with having had a lack of security In childhood.

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