The Counselling Room
Counselling in Southampton, Bournemouth and Poole

COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY

IN SOUTHAMPTON, BOURNEMOUTH AND POOLE

Welcome to the Counselling Room website. I hope you will find the information on this website helpful in answering your questions about counselling and whether it is suitable for you.

I am a fully qualified counsellor and psychotherapist working in Southampton, Bournemouth and Poole. I specialise in counselling and psychotherapy for individuals and couples and I work with a wide range of issues. I also offer counselling for foreign nationals, particularly people coming from Russia.

If you speak Russian and would like to find out more about the counselling and psychotherapy services for Russians in Southampton, Bournemouth or Poole, then click on Добро пожаловать на сайт for more information.

What is counselling?

In a counselling session, you can come and talk about anything that may be troubling you.
I can help you to work through your issues or give you information about other sources of help. Click here to learn more about some of the issues that I could help you with.

If you are looking for a counsellor/psychotherapist in Southampton, Bournemouth or Poole and would like to book a session with me, please see my contact details in About me/Contact me section.

If you are not sure whether counselling is right for you, please feel free to give me a call for an informal discussion.

Aims of counselling

I often hear my clients say that it has been hard for them to make a decision to start seeing a counsellor, because of their belief that counselling is for people with big problems or for people in real need of help. The fact is that counselling and psychotherapy could be of benefit to most people and there is no problem too small.

In counselling and psychotherapy, a sound and trusting relationship between the client and the therapist is established, which in itself can be a helpful step towards resolving your issues.

The main aim of counselling is for us to focus specifically on the issues that you would like to resolve. The best way to do this is to establish some concrete goals at the beginning of the therapy and some goal posts, which would help to measure the result achieved along the way.

Instead of focusing on one therapeutic approach, I employ various tools and techniques to help you achieve your goals, resolve your issues or simply feel better about yourself.

Is counselling completely confidential?

Yes, the counselling sessions are private and confidential and the information that you disclose in the session will not be shared with anyone.

If a situation should arise when I feel concerned for your physical safety or for the safety of another person that you mentioned in the session, then I may need to talk to a professional colleague about my concerns in order to make sure that everyone is safe.

Apart from that, it is up to you to decide whether you tell anyone else about your counselling sessions or not.

Counselling and psychotherapy for foreign nationals in Southampton, Bournemouth and Poole

If you are a foreign national living in the UK, you might be finding it difficult to get used to the traditions, culture and the way people relate to each other in the UK.

Although all these issues cannot be resolved in an instant, counselling can help you work through your problems.

I specialise in counselling and psychotherapy for foreign nationals living in the UK and can support you while you are adapting to life in the UK whether you have come as a student or to live in the UK permanently.

What to expect:

Each session lasts 50 minutes and at the end of the session you can decide whether you would like to come back for another appointment. I offer the first session free of charge. I offer counselling and psychotherapy in Southampton, Bournemouth and Poole.


Marina Wilson
Counsellor and Psychotherapist
Southampton, Bournemouth and Poole
Tel: 07817902134
Email: Marina Wilson