What is Counselling?
Counselling is a safe place to talk about the good or hard things in your life.
Counselling helps you work through your feelings and problems.
The counsellor should help you find your own way of feeling happier and safer.
Everything that you talk about in counselling is kept private.
Counselling helps you to:
- feel better about yourself
- have more control
- feel safe and be safe
- understand what’s happening
- feel less worried
- make some changes
- and know who you can talk to for support.
Who may need counselling?
People who have had something hard or scary things happen to them and may need some help.
People who have bad dreams or nightmares.
People feel angry, scared, sad or shaky all the time.
People who can’t stop thinking about the hard things that happened.
What will we do in counselling?
The counsellor listen to your story.
The counsellor help you find your own ways to deal with what happened to you.
The counsellor may use craft, art, figures, soft toys, drawings, cards and sand-tray to help you tell them what you feel. You don’t have to use words.
The counsellor will make things easy to understand.
You decide what you want to talk about with the counsellor.
Lots of people find that counselling helps them to feel more happy and safe.
In your first counselling session, you will find out more about what we will do together.
Photos of WWILD staff and performers from Access Arts Queensland from:
WWILD-SVP Association Inc. (2012) The ‘How to Hear Me: A resource kit for counsellors and other professionals working with people with intellectual disabilities’ , Brisbane, QLD.