Your reason for seeing a counsellor could be numerous, starting from an inability to cope with your everyday life, chronic stress, or depression to name a few. Whatever the reason might be, expert counselling could help you nip all of these troubles that’s been holding you back in the bud and mark your journey towards a better version of yourself. While there are several approaches to counselling including the traditional one, today, we will be talking about holistic counselling that aims to heal you in a way that negates the possibility of a relapse to the maximum possible extent. So, let’s get into it and allow us to take you through our holistic counselling course and basically everything that you need to know about it.
What is Holistic Counselling?
As the name suggests, holistic counselling is a holistic approach that considers your mind, body and soul to be one and believes that to heal an individual, one’s self needs to be targeted as a whole. In holistic counselling, the practitioner doesn’t focus on remedying immediate symptoms but tries to travel into your psyche, find the underlying cause of what’s been troubling you and annihilate it from its root. It brings together the traditional, non-traditional, spiritual and humanistic forms of counselling and creates an approach that will help you make your way to a better version of yourself while leaving behind your past inhibitions and resultant roadblocks.
When you enrol for a session in holistic counselling, you would be made aware of the physical, spiritual and mental factors that influence one’s overall wellbeing and all these factors would together be targeted to enable you to lead a better life. A typical holistic counselling course involves several techniques like psychotherapy, hypnosis, meditation, mindfulness and breath therapy to achieve the desired result.
Techniques of Holistic Counselling
Holistic counselling doesn’t just take a holistic approach when it comes to the areas that it targets but also in terms of the techniques that it uses or practices that it follows. The reason for this is also that there is no single method that works for all, simply because the symptoms would be different and so would be the problems that one is facing. So, depending upon the diagnosis, the issues would be targeted in the manner best suited for the individual.
All these techniques would help you create a balance between your body, mind and soul and arrive at a self that is more self aware and therefore, more in control. This might include several psychological exercises that would help you acquire a better control over your mind and physical exercises that would help you calm your body and help it function better.
Some techniques/practices involved in holistic counselling are:
- Acupuncture
- Breathwork
- Massage
- Meditation
- Reiki
- Mindfulness
- Tai chi
- Guided imagery
- Hypnosis
- Yoga
- Art
Each of these practices along with the guidance of a certified practitioner would allow you to begin the process of healing and improve the overall quality of your life.
How Can Holistic Counselling Help You?
Holistic counselling will help you improve each and every aspect of your life and arrive at a place where you would be well-equipped to deal with everyday stresses in a better way and lead a more peaceful life.
As a whole, holistic counselling will:
- Help you arrive at a sense that is more aware and accepting of their own self.
- Pave the way for your emotional wellbeing.
- Help awaken a sense of spirituality.
- Enable you to deal with life in a more calm manner.
- Equip you with the will to deal with traumatic experiences like abuse, heartbreak, death, etc.
- Help you acquire an optimistic approach towards life.
Through all the elements that holistic counselling brings to your life, you would be able to distance yourself from anything that curbs your potential to lead an empowering life of your choice.
Holistic counselling is clinically proven to help you heal from several limiting disorders like:
- Anxiety
- Stress management
- Depression
- Existential crisis
- PTSD
- Trauma
- Addiction
Duration of Holistic Counselling
A typical holistic counselling session at Celestial Living involves 6-12 sessions to help you overcome any issue that you may be struggling with. The frequency and the duration basically depends upon the intensity of the problem and may depend upon the improvement that you showcase in each session. With an initial consultation which happens in the first session, the practitioner would analyse your condition and come up with a treatment plan.
And as holistic counselling includes some basic everyday techniques like meditation, art and breath therapy, you can practice them on your own too when the sessions are officially over. This will help you keep the possibility of a relapse completely out of the picture and lead a better lifestyle.
So, this is everything that you need to know about holistic counselling. But in case you still have any doubts and wish to know if this is the right choice for you, you can get in touch with our practitioners at Celestial Living. Our expert would be happy to help you out and guide you through the entire process.
