Sue Williams

Homeopathy, Person Centred Counselling and Relational Counselling

with Sue Williams (Dip(HE)couns, MLCHom, MHMA, MBACP)

I am an experienced Person Centred Counsellor and Homeopath. I have been a therapist for over fifteen years and have an extensive knowlege in the use of Homeopathy and Counselling. I graduated from The Lakeland College of Homeopathy in 1998.

If you would like to move forward with your life, whether you have issues around self esteem, depression, insomnia or anxiety, I can help you. I believe that everyone has the ability to blossom into their full potential, and that everyone already has the answers of what is right for them.

I have worked as a regional tutor for The Lakeland College since 1999, running tutorial groups and student clinics.

As a member of the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy, I abide by their Code of Professional Conduct. I have also been a council member of the Homeopathic Medical Association and have worked on the Council of Organisations for Homeopathic Registration in developing a New Registering body for Homeopaths.

Homeopathy

I first went to see a Homeopath when my daughter was just one and a half. She had suffered a constantly runny nose and repeated throat infections. I was reluctant to give her antibiotics, particularly at such a young age, but felt that I couldn't leave her untreated. It was at this time, that I decided to take her to see a Homeopath.

I was extremely impressed with the results. For the first time in months she was no longer troubled by a runny nose, and became a happy and well balanced child once more. Since then I have been using Homeopathy on a daily basis, to treat adults and children with excellent outcomes.

Nowadays, I am always more and more amazed at the results that can be acheived with the use of Homeopathic Remedies, and never fail to be fascinated by it.

It is advisable to have a series of consultations, as Homeopathy can take a while to have an effect sometimes. At other times the effects can be seen immediately.

Person Centered Counselling

I completed my diploma in counselling in 2006 and worked in doctor's surgeries, and in Lancaster Prison.

The universal goal of all counselling is to influence clients towards growth and healing.

What inspired me to first become interested in Person Centred Therapy was the belief held by Person Centred Therapists, that the starting point is that both the therapist and client are trustworthy. This trust lies in the belief that everyone, despite adverse conditions and experiences, has the inner potential to grow and develop to be the best that they can be, and to find ways forward in life.

The three attitudes that a person centred therapist will nurture and hold for the client are Empathic Understanding, Unconditional Positive Regard and Congruence.

Empathic Understanding is important for the client to be able to track what is going on internally. Empathic responses do not direct a client in any way, but help them to follow what is happening in their internal world, and to get an understanding of themselves.

Unconditional Positive Regard is an attitude which is held towards the client, by holding the client in esteem, and by prizing the client and honouring the client's experiencing and being.

Congruence is the transparency of the counsellor to permit the client an accurate perspective on, or an understanding of the counsellor.

The Person Centred Approach involves listening and ‘tuning in’, rather than imposing, and a willingness to enter into the life of another human being as an honoured and respected guest, and not as an intruder or analyser. I will not be judging or criticizing you, but I'll be alongside, helping you to find ways forward.

Person Centred Counselling was developed by Carl Rogers during the 1950's. The counsellor aims to assist you to develop self awareness and self acceptance.

Therapy must influence in order to work and have an effect. Person Centred Non- Directivity refers to an attitude, the non-directive attitude. This structures the counsellor's intentions in relation to all of her clients.

Carl Rogers said in 1975, "I still feel that the person who should guide the client's life is the client. My whole philosophy and whole approach is to try to strengthen her in that way of being, that she is in charge of her own life, and nothing that I say is intended to take that capacity or opportunity away from her."

Couples Counselling or Relational Counselling

Counselling a couple is different to counselling an individual. It is the job of the counsellor to make sure that she creates an atmosphere where both clients learn that they can speak and be heard. Participants learn to trust and gradually give up layers of superficial positioning, positive and negative, to get to their most important truths. Counselling can help the clients to get a sense of perspective.

Counselling, concentrated on the quality of a relationship, can bring up very strong and personal emotions about what is missing and wanted from one's whole life, not just from the relationship.

Charles O’Leary, in 1999, suggested that the counsellor can point out the incongruence between people in the relationship, and their intention to resolve their differences and restore intimacy:
'The counsellor is not in charge of training in etiquette, and is certainly not the judge of a couple’s way of being. She can however, raise questions about the incongruence between what a couple intend, to resolve their differences and restore intimacy.'

O’Leary also said:
'Hopefulness is at the heart of counselling. It is the unexpressed other side of the bad news our clients initially share in our offices.'