Post by Dr. Fern Newton on May 19, 2016 16:25:17 GMT -6
Nox University Counselling
Nox University is offering counselling to all students who feel they need to speak to someone about any issues they are facing at the moment. The idea of this thread is to give you some basic information about the counselling offered here and how to make an appointment
What is counselling?
Counselling falls under the umbrella term ‘talking therapies’ and allows people to discuss their problems and any difficult feelings they encounter in a safe, confidential environment. The term can mean different things to different people, but in general it is a process people seek when they want to change something in their lives or simply explore their thoughts and feelings in more depth.
What to expect from Counselling?
A professional can help to normalise your experience and place it in context, bring objectivity, critical distance, and experience of dealing with problems of all kinds. This often leads to seeing a problem in a new way, and feeling more able to get to grips with it.
The experience of counselling will begin with a single session in which you and your counsellor work together to make sense of your experience, to conceptualise your problems in new ways, and to think together about how you might move forward. Some problems are of a more complex and/ or long standing kind and meeting for further sessions may be appropriate, but the aim will be to always keep counselling as efficient and focussed as possible.
Making an Appointment
To make an appointment you'll need to use the form which is provided when you click here.
Afterwards if you will receive a email or message on the forum saying if your appointment will be seen to or not. Most the time they will do for myself and these will be done weekly or whenever you wish to. The appointments are for first timers who haven't had an appointment before. You'll be asked on your first time seeing myself how you wish to do the appointments. Most people have around 4-8 sessions with the myself.
Advice for staff
If you are concerned about the welfare of a student you can seek help to ensure that support and treatment is provided as early as possible. It is important is to be able to recognise a problem, to know what options are available for help, and to recognise when to refer to an appropriate professional.
It may also help to convey that you see getting counselling as a positive adult step which represents taking responsibility for the situation (versus seeing it as a sign of weakness or failure).
If the student is not ready to talk about their problem or to admit that they have one, extend an open invitation to come back and talk to you in the future. You can help the student to overcome their fears about seeking professional help by:
Location of the Office
Below are the set of images to get to the Office of Dr. Fern Louise Smith;
Once you have entered the Library you'll need to go into the bottom door near the staircase.
If you have any other questions please do contact me as soon ASAP!
Signed:
Dr. Fern Louise Smith
Head Counsellor
Counselling falls under the umbrella term ‘talking therapies’ and allows people to discuss their problems and any difficult feelings they encounter in a safe, confidential environment. The term can mean different things to different people, but in general it is a process people seek when they want to change something in their lives or simply explore their thoughts and feelings in more depth.
What to expect from Counselling?
A professional can help to normalise your experience and place it in context, bring objectivity, critical distance, and experience of dealing with problems of all kinds. This often leads to seeing a problem in a new way, and feeling more able to get to grips with it.
The experience of counselling will begin with a single session in which you and your counsellor work together to make sense of your experience, to conceptualise your problems in new ways, and to think together about how you might move forward. Some problems are of a more complex and/ or long standing kind and meeting for further sessions may be appropriate, but the aim will be to always keep counselling as efficient and focussed as possible.
Making an Appointment
To make an appointment you'll need to use the form which is provided when you click here.
Afterwards if you will receive a email or message on the forum saying if your appointment will be seen to or not. Most the time they will do for myself and these will be done weekly or whenever you wish to. The appointments are for first timers who haven't had an appointment before. You'll be asked on your first time seeing myself how you wish to do the appointments. Most people have around 4-8 sessions with the myself.
Advice for staff
If you are concerned about the welfare of a student you can seek help to ensure that support and treatment is provided as early as possible. It is important is to be able to recognise a problem, to know what options are available for help, and to recognise when to refer to an appropriate professional.
It may also help to convey that you see getting counselling as a positive adult step which represents taking responsibility for the situation (versus seeing it as a sign of weakness or failure).
If the student is not ready to talk about their problem or to admit that they have one, extend an open invitation to come back and talk to you in the future. You can help the student to overcome their fears about seeking professional help by:
- reassuring them that anything said to a doctor, nurse, chaplain or counsellor will remain confidential
point out the consequences of not seeking help; that the problem will not go away by itself and that academic performance could continue to suffer.
Location of the Office
Below are the set of images to get to the Office of Dr. Fern Louise Smith;
Once you have entered the Library you'll need to go into the bottom door near the staircase.
If you have any other questions please do contact me as soon ASAP!
Signed:
Dr. Fern Louise Smith
Head Counsellor
