Phone therapy is a private, effective and
convenient way to solve your problems. At 1 to 1 Phone Counselling we
work with problems holistically, always aware that the underlying patterns contained
within our problems hold the key to their resolution. For example:
Jane rang to say that she wanted to work
with her cancer that had spread throughout her body. She had just a few
months to live. The therapist asked,
"How do you experience the cancer right
now, Jane."
"I don't really feel anything except a
sort of tickling in my side towards the back."
"If you were to give that tickling
sensation to me how would you do that."
"I would poke you with my finger."
"Great? Go ahead and use that finger to
poke something near you, a cushion would do if you have one near, and imagine the cushion is
someone's back."
After a few moments Jane says, "It feels good to do
this, it makes me smile."
By repeating the subjective experience of
poking, Jane is now identifying with making the pain and illness rather
than receiving it only. "If you're enjoying it then keep doing
it." The therapist said. After some moments she began to chuckle and the
chuckle soon grew to a laugh. She laughed and laughed and didn't stop
until she was interrupted. The laughter was so infectious that the
therapist had to laugh
too. "What's so hilarious?" The therapist eventually asked.
"The little me is so worried about dying
but I am the universe, there is no identity in me, I've already died a
thousand times." Then she
burst out laughing again. After another prolonged period the therapist responded,
speaking and acting as though he was her normal fearful
"little" self.
"But I am just a normal woman and
I'm scared of death. It's okay for you to have that perspective of
"no
death" but I am
flesh and blood and I die. I have no knowledge of death." Howls of laughter again.
In this process the client found and became the
figure that one could say created cancer, was standing behind cancer or was the
pattern within cancer. The itch and the poking feeling were signals that
are a dreaming process that was brought to awareness. It is awareness of
this underlying dreaming that resolves our problems. Working with all the patterns
that underpin our physical,
psychological and relationship problems brings the awareness that
enables us resolve them and helps us to become whole.
Jane discovered and was convinced of her own reality beyond
death. In fact, she discovered that she needed to die to retain life. It was an experience that changed her life, she transformed from
being the victim to that of being the creative principle underlying the
cancer. Further work focused on the loss that her loved ones would
feel when she had gone. She went on to help them from this new perspective.
Each problem has its own structure. Another
person with the same cancer may have a completely different
process and outcome. There is little that I am certain of in life, but
one thing we discover over and over again in our work is that illness,
problems and disturbances bring with them the seeds of solution for our
wholeness, and they provide the potential next step in our growth.
Jane, or other people referred to in this
website, are composites of typical situations and do not refer to actual
people living or dead.
Counselling and psychotherapy on the
phone is more
than simply giving support and discussing problems, although support is
one of the foundations of our work. You will also discover and use,
with our help, powerful tools that effect real
change in your condition and/or circumstances. Obstacles to freedom or
happiness deserve attention, focus and penetration.
A brief list of typical problems:
Short or Long Term Depression - Employment Difficulties
- Relationship
Problems - Habitual Behaviours
- Anxieties, Fears
and Phobias - Anger -
Bullying - Loss and
Bereavement - Shyness - Issues around Food and Eating -
Life Crises - Spiritual Crises - Physical Illness -
Agoraphobia -
Physical and Sexual Abuse - Addictions -
Issues with Assertiveness
- Sexual Orientation Issues -
Minority Issues - Infidelity -
Loss of Trust - Conflict Prevention and Resolution - Gender Issues -
Financial Difficulties - Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- Sexual Problems - Unwelcome Feelings,
Thoughts or Behaviours -
or if you are interested in knowing yourself better, working with
dreams or nightmares, then these and more can be worked with in 1 to1 Phone Counselling.
We are offering, at this time, a free initial half hour session.
This offer is open for a limited period, therefore contacting us now will give
you the opportunity of discussing your problem and getting a sense of
the process before launching into
therapy.
Phone counselling is not for everyone and from a therapist's
perspective there are certain limitations such as decreased awareness of
a client's body signals, or the extra support that a hand for example, can give. Such
limitations, however, do not prevent the power of therapy working on the
phone.
"I'm always thinking too much and I thought working on the phone
would just put me in my head even more. But finding myself flat on my
back on the floor, phone at my shoulder and tears in my eyes, with a
sense of joy in my body, I realise how wrong I was"... S.M.
Denmark.
Booking Information
To enquire about booking please contact Conor McKenna by phoning (0)1361 890329 or click on the email address below giving the
following information.
