Counselling in Launceston

David Shapiro del Sole is providing counselling in the Launceston area.  Clients wishing individual counselling, marriage/couples counselling, help with depression, anxiety, anger management and more have the option of face-to-face counselling at the address displayed at the right or of on-line counselling via Skype or Zoom.

Individual counselling and psychotherapy are ways of opening doors, from the inside, that have been stuck. They allow us to walk out into a space where we have greater freedom. There are times when the excitement and clarity of a life lived freely and responsibly are not there for us.  When even the support of family and friends, if we are lucky enough to have that, doesn’t seem to help.  And yet, to be held in the grip of states like depression or anxiety, that seem to have no resolution, demand from us our urgent attention.

Good counselling offers the possibility of understanding the nature of our difficulties. It begins with the belief that understanding resides in us—all of us. It is an understanding that has always been there, but which has been covered over by layers of received misinformation, training and habit. The task of the counsellor is to assist us in finding our way through those accumulated layers to a deeper, truer understanding of ourselves.

If such counselling sounds what you are looking for, I welcome you to contact me to find out more and/or to book a session.

Marriage/couples counselling: The importance of early intervention when it comes to sorting out relationship difficulties especially when they may be affecting others besides you and your partner, such as your children, can’t be overstated. Disagreements between partners are rarely the problem. What is the problem is the inability to talk about your different viewpoints without turning that difference into a heated argument or a cold, silent stand-off. There are strategies and attitudes that anyone can easily learn–though, admittedly, they take time to put into practice–which can help couples reduce conflict, better understand themselves and their partner and strengthen the emotional bond of their relationship. If this sounds like something you and your partner would like to explore further, I invite you to contact me with any questions you have or to make an appointment

“We are deeply helpful only when we relate as persons, when we risk ourselves as persons in the relationship, when we experience the other as a person in his own right. Only then is there a meeting at a depth that dissolves the pain of aloneness in both client and therapist.”

—Carl Rogers

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