Our Philosophy

At Evolve Counsellling, the philosophy that underpins every single conversation that takes place is:

“People are not problems.  Problems are problems”

Your counsellor will respectfully support you to explore your relationship to the problems around you, rather than defining you or others in your life as the problem.

When people come to counselling, they sometimes bring with them a view that the problems in their life are a product of their own, or someone else’s ‘dysfunctional’ identity  (eg: “There’s something wrong with me“, “I am messed up“, “I am not normal like everyone else” or “It is because of him / her that things are this way“).  Unfortunately, viewing problems in this way only serves to perpetuate problems further, thereby keeping things ‘stuck’.

At Evolve Counselling, you will be invited instead to think about the relationship you have with the problems around you.  For example, notice the difference between saying “I am depressed” and “I am experiencing depression“.  Invariably, this helps to open up a space where new understandings can emerge and you can move towards the preferred hopes you have for yourself and your life.