Counselling Perth Welcomes You to Henshaw Consulting

   Henshaw Consulting is a Perth based counselling practice specialising in providing relief from symptoms of anxiety and depression.  Counselling generally involves addressing concerns with your relationship, marriage, alcohol or drug use, anger management, grief or depression.  Many people use the word "counselling" interchangeably with "therapy", but counselling tends to involve helping someone through a difficult life transition whereas therapy tends to involve a deeper level of personal change and transformation.

Marriage Counselling and Relationship Counselling:  All couples go through difficult phases in their relationships, especially after the initial glow of romance has died down and there is a settling into the realities of daily life.  There are a number of important relationship challenges that all couples face and each one of these challenges can potentially bring conflict.  For example, issues with power struggles, intimacy versus autonomy and independence, differing communication styles, personality clashes and conflicting life directions can all impact the couple and produce potential for conflict.  Counselling will gently guide you and your partner through these difficult patches, give you better relationship skills and resources and help you achieve the resolution that you seek.

Alcohol and Drug Counselling:  Using alcohol or drugs excessively to help you cope with life's pressures is very common in our culture.  Unfortunately, this use or overuse can have unwanted and detrimental effects on your physical and mental health.  Lifestyle, relationships, work performance and life satisfaction are all eventually negatively impacted by substance dependency.  Counselling will help you to address your drug and alcohol issues in a non-judgemental and safe environment so that you can find the strength to make beneficial life choices and overcome your tendency to self-sabotage.

Anger Management Counselling:  Anger is a normal human emotion, however, if inappropriately expressed it can be quite a destructive force in your life.  Because anger is such a high intensity, high energy emotion, many people struggle with expressing it effectively.  In our culture, men and women are socialised differently with regards to what is acceptable and unacceptable when it comes to expressing anger.  Generally our culture expects that men are more likely to express anger with aggression, violence and loud angry outbursts. Problems such as domestic violence, getting into fights, reckless driving and destroying property can be unwanted consequences of this kind of anger.  

   Alternatively, our culture expects women to be more relationship oriented and careful about hurting people's feelings so women might be more likely to bottle up their rage and smile sweetly, be polite or cry but secretly be seething underneath.  Anyone involved in a relationship with someone who cannot express anger directly may feel uncomfortable, unhappy, manipulated, irritable, impatient or even enraged, such is the toxic nature of supressed anger.  Because anger is such a powerful emotion, when it is expressed inappropriately it can eventually lead to all sorts of physical and mental health problems such as depression, trauma, chaos and even heart disease.  Counselling will be of great benefit in helping you work through your anger issues and learn how to express it in a way that can enhance (yes it can!) rather than destroy your life.

Grief Counselling:  A loss of someone important to us (eg, a spouse, child or parent) or something we value (eg, a job, relationship or financial independence) can all bring about a grief reaction.  In our death-denying culture, many people suffering a bereavement can be utterly bewildered and devastated by these new feelings and find that they can't discuss how they feel with loved ones.  The reality is that many people feel awkward around a bereaved person: they don't know what to say or how to be supportive, they don't understand and some may even be downright avoidant because they can't deal with painful, sad feelings.  Therefore at a most difficult time, many people facing a loss will also feel isolated and alone.  Counselling will help you to understand your grief process: how to deal with intense feelings coming in waves and how to make meaning of and understand the loss as well as how to remain connected in relationships throughout the the grieving process.  Then how to carry on and move forward in life whilst remembering and honouring the memory of who or what has passed.

Depression Counselling:  Depression is characterised by a heavy, lifeless feeling in which a person feels very little energy or motivation to do anything at all. Feelings of hopelessness, worthlessness and guilt are aspects of depression and can become as severe as feeling suicidal. Depressed people can have difficulty crying or feeling any other emotions at all. Loss of interest in pleasurable activities and sex, disturbance in sleep or appetite are also common. Some symptoms of depression may overlap with symptoms of anxiety and quite often people have a mixture of both. Depression usually involves a repression of feelings, quite often anger, that can be turned against the self in quite destructive ways. Counselling involves helping you to reconnect with feelings and express them in appropriate ways.

   Henshaw Consulting offers you help working through all of these difficult life challenges, assisting you to grow to greater personal fulfillment by encouraging the development of new skills, strategies, strengths and resources that you can use to overcome your current and any future adversities.  I invite you to continue browsing through our website and enjoy the video presented below:

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