Welcome to Counselling Solutions

Supporting the mental health and emotional well-being of children, young people, adults, couples and families.

Counselling Solutions was established in 2008 and is located in Colchester, Essex.   Acknowledged for its professional services, Counselling Solutions is directed by Karen O’Neill and offers a broad spectrum of therapeutic interventions to include the following:

Whenever appropriate creative therapies are integrated within the work.  If you are experiencing difficulties, Counselling Solutions can offer you a safe, confidential and supportive therapeutic environment where you can reassess your life and increase your well-being.  There are no fixed answers in therapy, but there are certain tried strategies for exploring problems from new angles as you to regain control over your life.

Our Services

Attachment Informed Therapy

Through a gentle, warm, playful, loving and nurturing relationship, an emotional connection will develop for the child to their primary caregiver.

Adoption Support

Via commissioning by Local Authorities, Adoption Agencies and Fostering Agencies, we have an extensive experience of, and a particular interest in adoption support.

Adult Therapy

Psychotherapy aims to help individuals understand and create meaning from emotional and psychology difficulties they are experiencing.  It can help with big or small issues and is ultimately about increasing your wellbeing.

Child Therapy

Child therapy can help the child to regress and repair development milestones that might have been missed or express painful experiences that they haven’t been able to talk about before.  Hence, it can help with brain development or to help children to find suppressed emotions.

Couple Therapy

Sometimes when you are hurting or your relationship feels quite shaky, counselling can provide the much needed help and support.

Sleep Consultancy

Did you know that after only 72 hours of sleep disruption or deprivation the brain becomes incapable of putting an emotional event into its proper perspective? 

Training

Tailor made in-house training packages for organisations looking to introduce, maintain or improve their working practices. 

Parent Counselling

Being a parent is hard at the best of times which can mean that you feel ‘lost’ and unable to understand or connect with your child.  

Trauma Informed Therapies

As with many other therapeutic interventions, there are different types of trauma therapy and it is important that you find the right method and model to suit you.

Clinical Supervision

Clinical supervision is educative, supportive and managerial.  It is an essential part of working therapeutically with clients, whether they are adults or children. 

Creative Therapy

Incorporating different aspects of creative art mediums to facilitate process rather than a product, Creative Therapy includes any of the following; Sandplay, Clay, Storyplay®. All are psychotherapeutic approaches which can be used with children, young people and adults.