Cornwall Couples Counselling
with Clement West MBACP
A warm welcome to Cornwall Couples Counselling, I am the founder, Clement West MBACP, a qualified person-centred counsellor. Following my work with Better Help and Gosowes Counselling, I have decided to increase my focus on the relationship side of my work. To this end I have established Cornwall Couples Counselling, with the intention of bringing couples therapy and counselling to the people of Cornwall.
During a session, all will have an equal chance to talk and to be heard. We will then work through how to communicate our needs and desires in a non-confrontational way.
Clients tell me that they avoid or fear confrontation and as a result never ask for what they want. I believe that we can learn how to ask for what we need or want without it becoming a demand for the other person. It becomes a request instead.
Learning to let go and to forgive is also important. Forgiveness takes the ability to drop our need to be right and to come to a place of acceptance and understanding.
How do we get there? We start with empathy, that is, understanding the other persons point of view. We see that we go through life growing in awareness, and that many of our mistakes are when we simply did not know any differently. So there's an opportunity to learn and to move forward with our lives.
My thoughts on this are, that if you can....
Sessions cost £70 and last for around 1 hour 15 to 1 hour 30 minutes
You currently have 2 options 1) Come and see me in Helston, at Helston Chiropractic on Church Street on Fridays 2) We arrange a Zoom call for all three of us.
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The terms psychotherapy, therapy and counselling; psychotherapist and counsellor are often used interchangeably. Counselling is considered one of the talking therapies. I am a qualified Person-Centred Counsellor, member of the BACP. Clients come to therapy to receive, for example, grief counselling, couples therapy, anxiety counselling and depression counselling.
Counsellors near you might practice using different therapeutic approaches; I use mainly Person-Centred Counselling, with additions where I think the client will benefit.
Person-Centred Counselling originates from the writings of Carl Rogers in the post-war period, seeking an alternative to the psychodynamic therapy dominant at the time. The various counselling approaches are said to have varying levels of directivity, meaning how much the counsellor leads the client. Rogers wanted to avoid directing clients believing them to be experts in themselves, with the counsellor taking on a more supportive, empathetic role. The key tenets of Person Centred Therapy, known as the 3 Core conditions are
In Person Centred Counselling, you may expect to receive empathy in an environment where the counsellor holds you in your best, most positive aspect and displays congruence - that is, the counsellor will show feeling and be their true selves with you.