What An Cala can offer you - Counselling and Psychotherapy in Glasgow's West End

Sessions at An Cala

Counselling and Psychotherapy sessions last for 60 minutes per session and will be treated in the strictest of confidence focusing on the issues that are concerning you and preventing you from finding fulfilment and leading a rewarding life.

Our work together will be to understand why you feel as you do and the root cause for those feelings which will then allow us to work on changing the thinking patterns and behaviours that are supporting those feelings.

Following an initial assessment session we would allocate a weekly slot to meet. Your weekly slot would be on the same day and at the same time each week.

Fees

Initial Assessment – £60

Weekly slots – £60

All fees are payable by cash or by BACS on a session-by-session basis.

Please note that your slot is a reserved for you. I will always try to accommodate any changes you need to make if your session slot does not suit you or if you need to change it. However, if you do not attend for your slot without 48 hrs notice then full payment will be due for that slot.

What is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)?

CBT is a problem-focused, time limited therapy that aims to identify the negative beliefs that keep people trapped in ways of thinking and behaving. By identifying these behaviours and the thinking styles we adopt in order to cope with our beliefs we can then start to find ways to change thinking patterns and behaviours to bring about positive change. CBT is a highly interactive form of therapy so clients will be asked to undertake homework between sessions: homework is an integral part of the treatment.

CBT is primarily focused on the experiences and difficulties we are coping with in the present day although we will look back to a limited extent into childhood and early life for the roots of these experiences.

What is Psychodynamic Therapy?

Psychodynamic Therapy has emerged out of the work undertaken by Sigmund Freud in the early part of the twentieth century. At the heart of Psychodynamic Therapy is the belief that the problems we face as adults have their roots in our childhood experiences. Because of this a great deal of time is spent looking at experiences and feelings from childhood to establish how these are impacting on our present day lives.

What is Schema Therapy?

Schema Therapy sits somewhere between Psychodynamic Therapy and CBT. Distress we experience in the present will have its roots in experiences from our childhood. Our present day distress affects us like echoes from the past and recognising how we ‘replay’ past experiences in the present is at the root of Schema Therapy. Once we begin to recognise the roots and the triggers for those feelings we can start to find ways to deal differently with them.

A general point to make is that Psychotherapy and Counselling are not ‘quick fix’ treatments. If you decide to proceed, you are embarking a process of self-discovery and learning that takes time and commitment.