How is counselling helpful?
Our counsellor can help you to explore how leukodystrophy may be affecting your wellbeing and how you are adapting emotionally.
Counselling can help with:
- identifying and looking after feelings, emotions, such as anger, shock or guilt.
- exploring difficult thoughts.
- managing stress and anxiety.
- low mood and depression.
- understanding losses and grief, including anticipatory grief.
- dealing with changes,including onset or change of symptoms or condition progressing.
- impact on relationships; with friends, family or the relationship that you have with yourself.
- managing and creating boundaries.
- communication.
- advocating for self and love-ones.
- considering own needs to enhance self-care and self esteem.
- trauma.
To learn more about counselling, please read information provided by the BACP about Counselling: Introduction to counselling and psychotherapy
