Ekua M Edufuah

"Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it."

Audre Lorde

Counselling provides a safe and confidential space for you to talk to a skilled professional about your worries and concerns.

My role is to help you to explore your thoughts, feelings and behaviours and to develop a better understanding of yourself and others. Counselling can also help you to identify healthy coping strategies to manage problems, make decisions for yourself and effective changes in your life where they are needed.

Initial Phone Consultation

Deciding on a counsellor that is right for you is really important. I offer a free initial 15-20 phone consultation to discuss how I work, what you may like to talk about and to see how we can best work together.

We will arrange to meet for regular sessions at a mutually convenient time. We can work together on an open-ended basis or for a specific time-limited number of sessions. 

Black, African, Caribbean, Asian people are subjected to personal, internalised and institutional racism. Overlapping identities such as; being non white, a woman, disabled, LBGTQ means that "multiple layers” of marginalisation results in more nuanced impacts.

My goal is to understand clients through a holistic, cultural and non pathologising perspective. 

There is no right or wrong way of thinking. We all develop coping mechanisms or survival strategies that may have served us in the past but may have kept stuck or trapped. 

Counselling can provide an opportunity to look at things through a different lens, learn healthier coping skills and build resilience.

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