Counselling for Migraines
Who Can Migraine Counselling Help?
Are your migraines interfering with your ability to meet your responsibilities and commitments?
Do you feel overwhelmed by the frequency and intensity of your headaches?
Do you often feel anxious and/or depressed?
Do you feel that your current methods of managing your migraine are insufficient?
If you have answered ‘yes’ to one of more of the above questions you may benefit from our migraine counselling services.
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What Does Treatment Involve?
Step 1
To start with one of our Therapists will meet with you to find out more about your migraine symptoms and how they impact on you and your life. To build a picture of the type of counselling that would be helpful your Therapist will also ask you some more general questions about your health and wellbeing, relationships, current commitments and responsibilities.
Step 2
Armed with the information from step 1 your Therapist will then design an individualised counselling programme to help you to improve your symptoms and reduce the impact your migraines have on you. If appropriate this may include a review by one of our medical doctors.
Step 3
The core part of counselling for migraines is to identify the emotional/psychological influences that may be triggering or exacerbating your migraines and the current coping responses that may be maintaining them. Examples of these include hopelessness about the future, underestimating your ability to cope, self-blame and criticism and catastrophic thinking. Your Therapist will use a range of techniques including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to help you to reduce these influences and replace them with thinking styles that promote calm, confidence and balance. There is a wealth of evidence supporting this approach in the management of migraine so it is very likely that you will quickly begin to experience some benefit.
Step 4
Finally, your Therapist will help you to identify and then eliminate the influences that have made you vulnerable to developing migraines to ensure that the results of your counselling are long lasting. This step may include working to resolve residual feelings of anxiety, depression and low self-esteem and confidence.
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