Committed to understanding your experience and working towards taking actions for self improvement.
The choice to begin the counselling journey is a difficult one. Hence, we will work side by side with you to ensure you feel safe to explore your experiences in a confidential space without judgement, to aid in your healing, enhance your well-being and your ability to cope on a day to day basis.
At Evergreen Counselling Service we provide short or long-term psychological therapy to various client groups living with workplace, relationship, family, and mental health challenges. We offer blended services tailored to suit your therapeutic needs to help alleviate your symptoms of psychological distress, including, but not limited to Depression, Anxiety, identity crisis, trauma, bereavement, anger, addiction, personality disorder e.t.c.
My Interview with ITV news on Mental Health in black communities.
[ITV News aired on the 12th of October 2020].
What Counselling Is?
"Counselling is a talking therapy where you talk in confidence to a counsellor who will help you find ways to deal with difficulties in your life. Talking therapy is a psychological treatment for mental and emotional problems like stress, anxiety, depression etc". (NHS website, 2018)
Counselling plays a crucial role in improving the health and well-being of an individual and society at large. It is not about giving advice or opinions. It helps people to talk about their feelings, think about their choices or their behaviour, and make positive changes in their lives.
Individual Counselling: Is when a client works one-on-one with a trained counsellor. It is done in a safe and confidential space to explore their feelings, beliefs, or behaviors, work through challenging or influential memories, identify aspects of their lives that they would like to change, have better understand of themselves and others and set personal goals to become the best version of themselves.
You may choose to seek therapy for variety of reasons, from
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
Carl Jung.
Is like MOT check when you are in a relationship. It helps to identify cracks & issues in a relationship and then explore ways to improve communication, negotiate and resolve conflicts to have a progress-full relationship.
Aim of couples counselling?
"If it [attachment] goes well, there is joy and a sense of security. If it is threatened, there is jealousy, anxiety, and anger. If broken, there is grief and depression" - Bowlby, 1988
Christian Counselling offers one a forum to express and reflect on their experiences and thoughts from a faith or biblical perspective with a counsellor that shares the same belief, values and assumptions; Without judging, whilst considering what the word of God says concerning your life, family, children, marriage, physical or mental health, lifestyle, etc.
In recognition that all scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness (2 Timothy 3:16).
We might also need a christian counsellor when we find ourselves in need of guidiance when we are:
My Faith as a Christian is an integral part of my identity as to my race and ethnicity. And I value and respect other people's race, culture, opinions, expressions, choice of lifestyle and choice of spirituality and beliefs.
"Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established". - Proverbs 15:22 (KJV).
"Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety". - Proverbs 11:14 (KJV)
About Me
Uzochukwu Christian Ilodibe
Work settings
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Kindly wait at the reception in Wellington house located at 90-92 Butt Road, Colchester CO3 3DA and I will meet you there. Butt road car park (CO3 3DG) is a few meters from the location and also within easy reach of Colchester High Street. The office has Disabled access and WC as well as free parking.
Each session lasts 50 minutes. The first session is free and will allow you time to express how things are for you at the moment, with an eventual aim to see how you want things to be, and how you can get there. If we both decide to continue, we will arrange weekly sessions, with a review in six weeks to begin with. For some, six sessions is quite enough, whereas for others a longer period is required. You are under no obligation to continue with the sessions, and can end at any time.
Individual - £50 per session.
Students - £40 per session.
Couples - £60 per session.
Family - £70 per session.
Daytime: Mon - Fri (10am - 9pm)
Saturdays (9am - 1pm).
**Discounted rates are available when booking 6 sessions in advance**
Payment can be made in cash or by bank transfer.
Cancellation policy
If you need to cancel an appointment, 24 hours’ prior notice is required, or a £20 cancellation charge will apply.
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