Alicia Olles Psychotherapy Welcome!
Psychotherapy - Counselling
for
Individuals and Couples
Alicia Olles Psychotherapy Welcome!
Psychotherapy - Counselling
for
Individuals and Couples
Alicia Olles Psychotherapy
Welcome! Alicia is committed to helping individual's and couples navigate life's challenges to achieve a sense of wellness, connectedness to self and others, personal growth and desired change.
How can therapy help?
How Can Therapy Help Individuals?
Individual therapy can help with a range of issues including:
- Managing difficult emotions: If you're struggling with anxiety, depression, stress, panic, or sadness, therapy can provide support and help you manage and work through these difficulties.
- Relationships: If you’re having trouble in your relationships, whether with a partner, family, or friends, therapy provides an opportunity to understand your role in those dynamics and explore effective ways to relate and feel connected.
- Building self-esteem: Therapy can help you feel better about yourself, boost your confidence, and help you develop deeper trust and intimacy in your relationships.
- Recovering from trauma: If past experiences or disturbing memories are interfering with daily life, therapy can help you process and move on from painful events.
- Adjusting to life changes: Life transitions, like becoming a first time parent, an empty nester, retiring, or facing a health challenge, can prompt big questions about your purpose and the future. Therapy can help make sense of the changes you are experiencing and support you to make decisions that are right for you.
When Do Couples Seek Therapy?
Some common reasons couples seek help include:
- Communication issues: Feeling like you’re not getting through to each other or that conversations end in conflict instead of understanding.
- Frequent intense arguments: When arguments are happening more often or becoming more intense, it can be a sign that something deeper needs attention.
- Feeling disconnected: If you're noticing a distance between you and your partner, emotionally or physically, it can be tough to feel close and connected.
- Sexual dissatisfaction: Sometimes, couples need help when they're feeling dissatisfied with their sexual relationship, or when intimacy starts to feel distant.
- Ongoing unresolved disagreements: Big issues like money, children, work, or family can sometimes create tension and conflict that feel hard to resolve on your own.
How Can Therapy Help Couples?
Therapy can be helpful when couples are proactive about seeking help early. If you come to therapy when issues first arise, it can help you learn to communicate better, understand each other’s needs, and resolve conflicts in a healthy way.
The longer the issues have been around, the harder it can be to change old patterns. It’s important that both partners are committed to the process for therapy to be most effective.
If only one person in the relationship is willing to go to therapy, that can still be a positive step. By focusing on yourself, your needs, expectations, and behaviours, you can gain clarity and make positive changes that may inspire change in the relationship. Therapy can help you focus on your strengths and develop ways to bring more happiness and well-being to your life.
Services Offered
Individual Therapy
Get personalized one-on-one sessions to explore your circumstances in a safe and confidential environment. Through working collaboratively, we will develop a plan to enhance your sense of well being and your capacity to manage and overcome your challenging circumstances.
Couple Therapy
Work together with your partner to improve communication, resolve conflicts and strengthen your relationship. Parenting issues can be explored as part of couple therapy.
Perinatal Therapeutic Support
Tailored support for expectant mothers (pre and post birth) including Non-directive Pregnancy Support Counselling.
Parenting Coaching (for parents with children up to 12 yrs)
Guidance and support to equip parents and caregivers with useful evidence-based tools and tailored approaches within the frame of ‘good enough parenting’ . Parents and caregivers will use their own strengths and unique understanding of their child, alongside additional tools to help build a supportive family dynamic in which all members are able to thrive individually, in their relationships with one another and beyond.