Psychological Counselling Explained
Psychological Services provided include, psychological counselling to understand the situation, needs and aspirations of a client. Need and options for: psychological therapy or psychotherapy to reduce or eliminate conditions such as anxiety, low confidence, disappointment, failure, grief, guilt, stress, tension, depression, obsessions, anger, hatred, etc. This will involve psychological training and guided self-treatment, followed by support and mentoring, if required. Combined, these services are aimed to better equip the client to survive and thrive “The Quickening” pace of life, challenges, complexities, conflict, dynamics, information overload and uncertainties with a view to improved health, happiness and performance.
Scenarios that Benefit from Psychological Counselling
Scenarios that increasingly necessitate psychological counselling and therapy, include:
“The Quickening”, that is the continually increasing pace of life, of change, challenge, competition, complexity, uncertainty, expectation, legislation, taxation, instant news feedback, fake news, conflict, crime, climate change, etc., and our need to cope with these. The Quickening, increases:
- Anxiety, doubt, low confidence, confusion, frustration, disappointment, failure, grief, guilt, stress, depression.
- Feelings of dis-ease, injustice, perceptions of unrealistic demands and unreasonable expectations, escapism, overwork, unsustainable span of control, burn out, etc.
Can lead to obsession, addiction, impaired immune system, and even trigger physical and mental illness or disease.
Great and often competing, demands on one’s abilities, including, thinking, knowledge, insight and wisdom. Given that thinking is a process necessary for every human endeavour, society’s problem is that, generally, humans are not taught to think effectively and efficiently in formal education, but rather we learn to think incidentally and indirectly (inefficiently and ineffectively) in ad-hoc random ways as a result studying other subjects such as history and mathematics. If we learn to think first, we can then study and develop knowledge and wisdom more effectively. However, it is not too late to learn how to think more efficiently and effectively now.
Methods Employed in Psychological Sessions
The fundamental principal is that, for most people, their dreams and aspirations go unrealized, or only partially realized, because their abilities and potential are under: recognized, developed and applied. Consequently, people tend to gradually lower their original dreams to a level closer to their thinking. Whereas, the solution is the reverse, to raise the level of their thinking to achieve their dreams. The teaching methodology is relatively simple as outlined below:-
- To educate clients as to the need and opportunity.
- Clarify the mission.
- Teach the means (the how).
- Practice, hone and apply skills.
The how, entails editing the mind (the programme which each has developed to think). Usually, the old programme contains bad habits of some negativity, distraction, excuses, poor foci, poor concentration, procrastination, giving up instead of learning from failure, etc. Your programme (your MIND) is effectively the OS (operating system) of your brain (the muscle or CPU). Your mind can be edited to achieve extraordinary results. Exercising the brain will also create new neuro pathways in the brain itself.
If you haven’t been taught to think before, it is not too late to learn, now is the time.
Common Psychological Issues
Common psychological issues that arise from impaired ability to think effectively and cope better with “The Quickening” (Ref. Definitions below) and life generally, include, wrong perception / understanding and thinking, compromised health, lack of happiness and joy, low performance, fear of failure, frustration, acceptance of less in life, less success, less progress, and lower prosperity. Results, opportunities, happiness and joy would be compromised.
Assessment Processes
Analysis and assessment are minimal. There is no retro analysis, no criticism, and no records or recordings are kept. The process is private, confidential and secure. Assessment is of where you are now and development to define your objectives, your dreams and aspirations (where you want to be).
Then, knowing the starting point and needs, and finish point, the means can be plotted. You are then guided to develop the means starting with a strategy. The details will evolve. For most, this will necessitate transforming thinking, belief, commitment, knowledge, techniques and confidence to progress towards fulfilling your dreams, joy and eventually prosperity.
Sought Benefits of Psychological Services
Sought Benefits include:
- Improved thinking ability which impacts on all human endeavour.
- A more clearly defined and worthy mission (special purpose or vocational calling) in life and for life, providing a new enabling and guiding compass.
- Greater confidence in the clearer knowledge of where you are, knowing purpose of value, where you are going and how to get there. When you determine this, it is empowering.
- The Psychotherapist will Guide and Train you to greater efficiency and effectiveness in foci, learning (memory) direction, energy, confidence, application and effectiveness.
- Improved health, happiness, learning, satisfaction, performance and success with a view to, ultimately, greater joy and prosperity.
The Psychotherapist will Guide and Train you to Increase Independent Emotional Control
The psychotherapist will guide you through exercises to relax, reduce anxiety and calm your emotions to enable independent control, filtering out external negative influences. This is because emotional reaction to circumstances impedes control.
Remember the pneumonic ERIC, which is explained here:
E = Emotional
R = Reaction
I = Impedes
C = Control
Definition of Terms
- “The Quickening”. The continually accelerating pace of life and rate of: change, challenge, complexity, competition, conflict, chaos, corruption, crime, cyber insecurity, foreign hostilities, communism, consumerism, consumption, capitalism, authoritarianism, deep fake reports and news, uncertainty, risk, sabotage, greed, the knowledge explosion, legislation, taxation, climate change, etc.
- “MetaMind®”. MetaMind®, the word, has a double meaning.
First, it means literally, with and beyond the mind. This refers to it’s potential to transform beyond normal personal usage. Potentially, >98% of people are not exploiting their full mental capacity to good effect. The Programme can train participants to apply the mind more effectively for better outcomes, e.g., health, performance and success.
Secondly, the Programme, aims to be holistic and enable function with and beyond the mind, e.g., not just intellectual, but also physiological, psychological, emotional, even spiritual facets of our being.The effect of the above is rather like driving a car on all cylinders, rather than just one, providing great torque and synergy. - “Eupsychian”. An open, developmental, progressive culture encouraging, nurturing and manifesting: enlightenment, innovation, opportunity, justice, integrity, fairness, responsibility, community and environmentally responsible, seeking truth and wisdom, etc., not just to manage, product and stakeholders, but also benefiting; workers, customers and the community with a view to mission, means, service quality, survival / sustainability within a the actual or dynamic environment.
- “Prosperity”. All aspects of health, goodness, wellbeing, good fortune, learning, a sense of purpose and progress, joy, mission of value and value of means, satisfaction, sufficiency of opportunities and resources with which to pursue appropriate opportunities, sustainability, with little or no focus on the accumulation of financial wealth and power. Satisfaction from accomplishment,
- “Positive Social Impact”. Making, or contributing to making a positive difference to the lives of others in or beyond your community, and how much you improve them — regardless of whom when or where they are.
Compatibility with other treatments
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Ref. AACBT website. is compatible with other medical treatments and should cause no conflict. However, if under another treatment, consult your competent medical practitioners, and do not forgo other treatments without consultation and careful consideration.