Human Givens Counselling and Therapy in Cardiff
Is your head full of difficult, muddled, confusing thoughts endlessly circling and interfering with your sleep?
Do you feel overwhelmed by intense emotions uncertain how to manage them and feel safe, balanced and in control again?
Are you struggling to make sense of sudden unexpected, or inevitable changes with a loss of direction and meaning in your life?
Counselling may be exactly what you need right now to help with these and many more difficulties you may be experiencing.
My name is Helga Moore and I have been a practising counsellor for 25 years the last 13 working in Cardiff as a Human Givens Therapist.
I am committed to providing counselling and psychotherapy in a safe, confidential and non-judgemental environment. I work with adults, children and couples on an open-ended basis or for an agreed time period, with the aim of enabling you to enhance your life and to live it more fully.
We all have essential emotional needs for security, control, connection, intimacy, attention, achievement, status, privacy and meaning. Sometimes we find it difficult to get all our needs met in balance and we are unable to use our innate mental resources to help us achieve this. Often we misuse our imagination and become over emotional so that we are unable to see clearly how to move forward, make the necessary changes and feel happy and fulfilled again.
There are many reasons why this can happen. You may have experienced a huge change, a traumatic loss, or unfair treatment in a relationship, in childhood, or at work. Talking through your experiences can be incredibly healing, developing new perspectives, clarity of understanding and a new sense of direction and hope. It also offers you the time and space to learn new ways of understanding mental health and what you can do to change the way you feel, think and behave.
To find out more about what counselling can do for you visit my About Counselling page. Or if you would like to know more about my work as a counsellor visit my About me page.
My areas of counselling specialism
I am based in Cardiff working as a experienced counsellor and supervisor offering counselling and Human Givens Therapy to adults and children who have difficulties with :
- Depression
- Stress
- Anxiety
- Low Self Esteem
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Bereavement
- Addiction
- Relationships
- Couples
- Working with Children
- Sexual Abuse
- Panic Attacks
- Flashbacks
- Dissociation
- Self harm
- Anger
- Phobias
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Rewind intervention offered
- Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)
- Psychotic episodes
My counselling therapy practice is within easy reach of Cardiff, Newport and Bridgend situated just off junction 32 on the M4. Click here to view map. I also offer counselling by Skype if preferred.
Thoughts for the month
As I sit and reflect what might be useful and interesting to write at the start of a new month I feel a quiet sense of balance and calm which I notice with gratitude but hold lightly too, as I know as with all feelings positive or difficult this too is transitory…
As a therapist I find this approach to feelings in general is the best I can offer really - an awareness always that this too will pass however wonderful or difficult it might seem in the moment. I offer simply my presence to walk alongside whoever chooses to share their story with me with an openness of heart, compassion and gentle curiosity. I try to simply join with them in the middle ground and explore possibilities with kindness and awareness of our shared humanity, vulnerability and fallibility.
And to reflect the essence of this approach here is a poem written by a wonderful young woman I was lucky enough to work with once who struggled with multiple issues stemming from childhood sexual abuse - a poem of hope and optimism in the face of daily challenges, offering all of us a moment to consider the power of the human spirit to heal and grow strong again despite the most horrific pain and suffering.
Open wounds are memories
but won’t always be that way
It’s just the monsters that reside in you
have led your mind astray.
And when you feel you’ve spent eternity
living in the shade
It’s no wonder you are doubtful
that the pain will ever fade.
But the thing that you’ve forgotten
is you were born amongst the stars
and a light that shines so brightly
can turn the worst wounds into scars
