Personal Potential is a comprehensive counselling service operated by Dr. Carl Stonier and is devoted to helping every individual to achieve his or her own potential. In other words, to be everything that it is possible for that person to be, actualised, fulfilled and happy.
Where
Personal Potential is based in the UK at Crowle, North Lincolnshire which is located between Scunthorpe to the east and Doncaster to the west. We also have contacts with, and weekly/fortnightly visits to Doncaster, Hull in East Yorkshire and the Pontefract and Castleford area of West Yorkshire.
Style of Counselling
Primarily Person Centred, which is the type of Humanistic therapy developed by the late Carl Rogers, but where it is felt to be appropriate, may use other approaches including guided imagery, hypnotherapy, art therapy, transactional analysis, past life regression therapy & Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT, www.emofree.com)
Suitable 'problems' for referral
Basically, anything which may cause distress to the individual including relationship difficulties/breakdown; bereavement; survival of abusive (any kind of abuse) childhood; post traumatic stress; phobias; anxiety; obsessive compulsive problems; depression; dissatisfaction with life/feeling unfulfilled; feeling 'stressed' and unable to cope.
Services Offered
- Individual counselling
- Couples counselling
- Employee assistance programmes
- Psychosexual therapy
- Stress management
- Personal development/growth
- Individual and group supervision for counsellors
- Training in counselling skills, communication, assertiveness, violence management and complaints management/customer satisfaction
- Workshops
- A number of audio CDs are also available, including using guided imagery to help in dealing with cancer, heart disease, pain control and a general purpose introduction to guided imagery/meditation.