Counselling at Physioflex

Counselling involves talking with a trained therapist who will listen to you and help you to explore and make sense of your thoughts, emotions and behaviours. 

Counselling provides you time to think and work through any issues that are impacting you in a safe, supportive, non-judgemental and confidential space.  

At Physioflex, your therapist will work with you in a Pluralistic manner which means they will approach therapy in whatever way you need and want. You may want someone to listen to you, or help you to improve your understanding of self, of others and of the problems you are dealing with. If you prefer, your therapist could help you to find effective ways of coping or empower you to find solutions and make changes in your life.  

Whatever you want to achieve with therapy, we know that you get the best results when you feel you have a positive connection with your therapist and can tell them how you are really feeling. 

Counselling can help with many different issues that people face such as:

Mental health conditions like depression, anxiety, eating disorders, OCD, phobias.

Difficult life events such as bereavement, relationship breakdowns, abuse, trauma, redundancy, receiving a worrying medical diagnosis, menopause, dealing with work issues.

Difficult emotions such as feeling stressed, low in mood, lonely or having trouble controlling anger.

Living with a long term health condition such as infertility, stroke, heart conditions, diabetes or cancer. Or being a carer for someone with a long term condition.

To understand and improve any relationship issues and family problems.

To help with self-development, addressing how to communicate effectively, or improving low confidence or low self-worth.

Physio-Flex therapists are professionally qualified and are registered members of the BACP, which is a counselling professional body. Our therapists provide Pluralistic Counselling Services to clients aged 5 and above and offer individual and family sessions. 

With Pluralistic therapy, you will work in partnership with your therapist and use a combination of therapy approaches depending how what you both feel is most helpful. Your therapist will explain how each type of therapy approach works to help you understand your options fully. 

Pluralistic therapy has a flexible approach to make sure that your therapy is specific to you, your beliefs and your problems, and with agreement, this can change throughout your sessions to ensure you get the most effective therapy for you.   

Therapy sessions can be delivered in person, by telephone or online video calls as per your preference and circumstances and can be flexible throughout your period of therapy. The number of sessions varies for each client and although the therapist may recommend a number of sessions it is completely within your control how many sessions you wish to attend and you can stop counselling for any reason.

Pluralistic therapy works in a collaborative person-centred way and can include elements of any of the main areas of counselling - Humanistic, Psychodynamic and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and varies according to the clients' needs, beliefs and preferences.

CBT works to understand the links between how you think, behave and feel with the aim to stop and reorganise any unhelpful patterns in this cycle. 

Psychodynamic therapy looks at your childhood and past experiences and how they have shaped who you are today and how they may impact your relationships, the way you communicate, your behaviours and how you feel now. Psychodynamic therapy can help address unhelpful and negative beliefs from your past and change how they impact you in the present. 

Humanistic therapy focuses on you as an individual, with the therapist encouraging you to share your experiences and perceptions of your own life and how you fit into your world, encouraging you to work towards increasing self-awareness and self-acceptance.  

There are different approaches, tools, and ways of working within each of the main types of therapy and your therapist can help to explain what strategies are available more fully during your sessions. 

With family therapy, the therapist will work with any member of your family who wishes to participate. 

Who attends each session will vary according to what is needed and what will provide the most benefit for your family at that time. 

Our therapist will provide sessions for individuals, pairs or for all family members and will work in a flexible manner to ensure the therapy is specific to your family needs.