Can you benefit from counselling?

Counselling is for individuals who are aware that life is a process of internal growth, and who are open to seek help to transcend the hurdles they are faced with from time to time. In other words, counselling is for people who are interested in personal growth and who have the courage to face their internal obstacles in order to go beyond them, with a professional guide. The following are examples of hurdles we all face in our life, and where counselling can be very helpful:

• Feeling stuck in old patterns of thinking and acting; you can't seem to be able to change, to move on. You may be suffering from compulsive eating, drinking, attracting always the same type of partners, or other self-defeating patterns.
• A life transition, where you don't know any longer where you are and what you'd like to do with your life.
• A crisis situation in your relationship, in your career, an accident, the death of a loved one, or any other sudden life-change.
• Feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, panic attacks, phobias, depression, anger, grief...these emotions can be understood and healed by discovering and releasing emotional charges you are still holding from the past.
• Low self-esteem: you feel uncomfortable with yourse if and others. You don't dare to go for what you really love in life.
• Suffering from an addiction: alcohol, food, sex, internet, work, relationship, shopping, or anything else you may be using in an out-of-control manner, causing you to feel bad afterwards.
• Spiritual crisis. You want to investigate your spiritual beliefs and experiences.
• Trauma: you have experienced sexual or other abuse in your life and you still experience emotional consequences from it. Any experience you had in life where you shut down as a consequence can be understood as traumatic, because a part of you stopped growing from that point on. Trauma can be healed with Energy Psychology, gently and permanently.
• Using medication for anxiety (Ativan) or sleeping pills, both of which may be addictive, counselling can help you find and heal emotional causes of anxiety and sleeping problems and release you from them.
• Physical pains and problems where your physiotherapy or chiropractic treatments don't seem to help more than for a few days; this may be a sign that a part of your unconscious mind does not want to be free from pain for specific reasons. These reasons can be discovered and released in counselling.

Alternative Counselling can address all the above issues successfully and many more. It is a holistic form of traditional counselling combined with the practice of Energy Psychology. In alternative counselling we acknowledge that all our problems are created by the unconscious mind and have unconscious associations with our past, including our childhood.

In my practice of Alternative counselling I help clients find their unconscious beliefs and emotions at the cause of their presenting problem (any of the above or anything else; including physical problems), and then we heal these beliefs and feelings with Energy Psychology. (For a description of Energy Psychology you may go to my website and read the free article: www.internalfreedom.com

Let me give you an illustration: Sue (not her name), one of my clients, had chronic problems making a living. She had troubles in every job she had and ended up not even finding a job any more. We discovered that she was still very angry at her parents for what she had experienced in her childhood. She discovered that she still felt hurt and believed her parents had treated her unfairly, and so she wanted to punish them by not making a living. Unconsciously she hoped they would "pay" for her what she thought they owed her emotionally. Once we found these were her beliefs, we used EFT, one of the techniques of Energy Psychology to release this blockage and her pattern of financial lack and scarcity changed very fast: She found a job she actually liked and started to make a good living with it.

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Marlise Witschi, M.Psych., Alternative Counsellor, is the founder of YourHealingWay, a psycho-spiritual system to heal yourself, your relationships, your business and your life. You may sign up for my free audio healing session at: www.internalfreedom.com.