counselling

krysallis offers quality and experienced counselling support within a safe and confidential space, giving you time and understanding while you work through whatever is troubling you. Through attentive listening and feedback, counselling can help you to identify and ameliorate distressing feelings or unsuccessful ways of coping, opening the way to increased self-esteem and confidence, better communication, improved relationships and deeper self-knowledge.

• Are there too many uncomfortable ups and downs in your life?
• Are you upset or anxious or fed up or depressed? 
• Do you feel painful events from your past are disrupting your life today? 
• Are you uncertain or alone or worried or angry or hurt? 
• Do you feel you need someone to turn to for help?

Talking with a counsellor can be a positive and practical option, whether you are seeking personal change or the relief of being heard without judgement. Counselling is not advice-giving but respectful acceptance of your feelings and thoughts, however confused or emotionally raw they might be. Because this is an approach which depends on the establishment of a secure relationship rather than on technique or specific interventions, counselling does not specify 'issues': the only one is emotional pain; but this can manifest itself in limitless ways, from the hurt of relationship breakdown to the disabling effects of phobia or panic to poor anger management. Below are some of the problem areas often cited by clients.

• Family difficulties
• Stress or anxiety
• Bereavement and loss
• Addictions
  
• Depression
  
• Low confidence and self-esteem
  
• Career/life changes
  

Nothing is excluded from counselling and all aspects of clients' lives are deemed important. It is therefore a truly holistic therapy.

Our comfortable and private practice locations for counselling are within easy reach of Leeds, Harrogate, Knaresborough, Ripon, Boroughbridge and Wetherby, so one of our counsellors may not be far from you. 

Start by booking a free consultation, a no obligation 30 minute discussion focused on you and your needs.

 'A compassionate person seeing a butterfly struggling to free itself from its cocoon, and wanting to help, very gently loosened the filaments to form an opening. The butterfly was freed, emerged from the cocoon, and fluttered about but could not fly. What the compassionate person did not know was that only through the birth struggle can the wings grow strong enough for flight. Its shortened life was spent on the ground. It never knew freedom, never really lived...'

'Loving with an open hand' by Ruth Sanford (Wantagh-Seaford Observer; 1978)