Counselling

Why wait to feel better? Counselling can help you implement positive changes in your life.

Individual Counselling

Individual counselling is an empowering journey of self-awareness and improvement. In confidential one-on-one sessions Gaina will work together with you to explore the thoughts, emotions and behaviors guiding your life. Gaina is committed to your growth and development, and aims to fulfil your therapeutic goals by helping you strengthen your emotional wellbeing, improve your interpersonal relationships, gain insight and understanding around your triggers and reactions, and implement the necessary tools for you to be in control of your life. Gaina is dedicated to the growth and development of her clients, and believes that to live a fuller life, you must strengthen yourself, and the relationships that are in it. Gaina looks forward to working with you and providing the best possible opportunity for change.

Couples Therapy

Few couples expect they will ever need counselling, and few come to counselling at the start of a problem. Most couples seek help when they are in a crisis. No matter when or why you seek it out, know that there is always help and relief.  Gaina provides a non-judgmental and supportive space in which intense, often painful emotions can be fully expressed and acknowledged. You might be experiencing a crisis of trust, a loss of intimacy, or a breakdown of communication. Or you might seek couples therapy looking to reconnect and rediscover a relationship which has changed with time, the birth of children, or the effect of other life events. Whatever the circumstances of your relationship, we will work with both you and your partner to help you identify the best way of progressing. Even if your partner is not ready to enter counselling, we can still help you take the first steps in bringing about change. Ultimately, as you leave behind defeating and destructive patterns, couples therapy can allow you to create the conditions for a stronger, more open, and mutually fulfilling partnership to flourish.

Couples seek counselling to address:

• Improved communication and understanding
• Restore trust after infidelity
• Recover a loss of attraction and/or intimacy
• Navigate the challenging decisions around, and process of, separation and divorce
• Help adjust to the shift of dynamics caused by the birth of children
• Begin a new partnership or marriage on a firm footing

With the expert support, you will identify and address unresolved tensions in your relationship. You will learn better communication skills and new ways to approach problems, leaving behind defeating and destructive patterns.

Counselling Service

As part of providing a counselling service to you, Gaina Radford, will need to collect and record personal information from you that is relevant to your current situation. This information will be a necessary part of the counselling assessment and treatment that is conducted. You do not have to give all your personal information, but if you don’t they may mean the counselling service may not be able to be provided to you. I believe that my clients have the desire and the capacity to grow towards fulfilling their true potential, and that they are the experts in their own lives. Therefore, I will not give you advice or offer solutions, but will work with you to help you understand yourself more fully and to find your own inner resources. With greater self-awareness and trust in yourself, I hope that you will be able to make constructive changes, leading to a more satisfying and meaningful life.

Purpose of collecting and holding information

The information is gathering as part of the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of the client’s condition and is seen only by the counsellor. The information is retained in order to document what happens during sessions, and enables the counsellor to provide a relevant and informed counselling service.

Access to Client Information

At any stage you as a client are entitled to assess to the information about you kept on file, unless the relevant legislation provides otherwise. The counsellor may discuss with you appropriate forms of access.

Confidentiality

All personal information gathered by the counsellor during the provision of the counselling service will remain confidential and secure except where:

1. It is subpoenaed by a court, or
2. Failure to disclose the information would place you or another person at serious and imminent risk, or
3. Your prior approval has been obtained to
   (a) provide a written report to another professional or agency, eg a GP or lawyer or
   (b) discuss the material with another person, eg a parent or employer or if disclosure is otherwise required or authorised by law

Fees

Refer to the services menu for fee.  The cost is payable prior to the session commencing.

Cancellation Policy

If, for some reason you need to cancel or postpone the appointment, please give at least 24 hours notice, otherwise you will be charged the full cost of the session.

Ending Counselling

Normally, the end of counselling would be by mutual prior agreement. However, you have the right to end your counselling at any time. I would appreciate you letting me know if you decide not to return to counselling, giving me at least 48 hours notice. If at any time I feel that our counselling is no longer appropriate for you, I will discuss this with you and may suggest discontinuation or a referral to a more appropriate service.