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Therapeutic Counselling

Menopause and Peri-Menopause-Navigating the Emotional Journey of Change When we hear the words perimenopause and menopause, conversations often focus on physical symptoms such as hot flushes, sleep disturbances and changes in menstrual cycles. It can also affect sex lives meaning that being intimate is not the same as before. Noticing differences in your body and anticipating your partner notices these too. Not every culture perceives this change in life in the same way as

Training to be a counsellor is different to how you might have experienced being a student at school or college. Your mind might wander to memories of sitting at a desk, listening to a teacher talk at you , following rules such as only going to the toilet in the break and speak when you are spoken to. The reality is it is much less formal and being an adult learner means being self-directive whilst you are qualifying. I notice a familiar pattern in my role as Counselling