Self-Help Strategies

Self-help strategies generally focus on different techniques you can employ yourself, rather than the more focused one-to-one help you will receive in counselling. These techniques can be learned and employed at any time, and will ideally become positive emotional habits to replace the harmful ones that often lie behind anxiety, depression and low self-esteem.

Some of the self-help techniques explored on this website include:

• Relaxation techniques
• Increasing motivation
• Raising self-esteem
• Comparing ‘before’ and ‘after’ experiences
• Understanding out-of-place feelings
• Reality checking
• Recreating positive associations