About counselling

I am a person-centred counsellor, which is a humanistic approach to psychotherapy that puts you in the centre, through the counsellor’s trust in you and your personal power.  The way counselling works is that, ideally, the counselling relationship becomes one in which you feel safe to be yourself and explore whatever it is that feels to you would be the best direction to go (because you are the expert of your own experiences). My job as the counsellor is to fully trust you in this process, to unconditionally accept you as a whole, to empathically understand you, and to remain genuine, without any facades, throughout. This safe environment in which you can talk about anything should help you in the process of becoming your authentic self. 

Anyone! I fully believe that anyone would benefit from person-centred counselling, mainly due to its gentle and respectful nature. As a rule of thumb for private counselling, though, I would say that if you've read the short description above and think that you could use such a space offered, then I'm fairly certain that you're right.

Given the emphasis on the counsellor's trust in your personal power both inside the counselling room and outside in your personal life (including decision-making regarding whether or not and how to engage with the counselling space), giving a list of areas I could work with would be somewhat paradoxical or at least unnecessary. However, I understand that it can be helpful for some (and for the internet search), so a non-exhaustive list of areas with which I have personally worked includes: self-esteem, anxiety, depression, traumatic experience, bereavement and grief, interpersonal issues, existential concerns, uncertainties related to identity, body image problems, and other, less tangible struggles faced by individuals.

Once you reach out, we can agree on a time for an initial introduction call. This is a 20-minute video call online where you can see if I am the right counsellor for you and ask any questions you may have, which can be anything you need to know or understand so that you're confident in your decision to start counselling with me. Ideally, we agree on a regular time for our subsequent counselling sessions and book our first proper session.

Then, I send you an e-mail with the Counselling Agreement and GDPR privacy policy (you can find these at the bottom of my website), along with an information sheet for you to fill out. These are necessary to cover the legal ground of counselling.

Once these are done, all that is left is the start of the counselling process itself. Counselling sessions are more difficult to describe as they're incredibly unique. Luckily so, as allowing this uniqueness to unfold is what I believe to be at the core of a meaningful counselling process.

I am currently only taking adult clients.

For information regarding fees and appointments, you can visit the page dedicated to it here. 

For more information regarding locations for in-person counselling and online counselling, you can visit the pages dedicated to it here.

For any questions, or for booking an appointment, feel free to just drop me an e-mail at info@zsofiatoth-counselling.com, where I aim to respond within a day.