Counselling

Support from a trained professional who helps someone explore difficulties, feelings and ways of responding to them.

Support through listening and discussion that helps people understand difficulties and work towards ways of addressing them.

Continuing parish support, including guidance or counselling, can help couples work at that commitment after their wedding. Sacramental support therefore connects important family occasions with an ongoing life of faith.

Support that helps people discuss difficulties and explore ways of dealing with them, such as problems in marriage or parenting.

Do not assume that every parish offers every service, or that counselling always resolves a family's difficulties.

Use distinct developed points rather than repeating that every activity ‘brings families together’. Counselling, for example, can help couples address difficulties and prevent family breakdown.

Distinguish religious guidance and informal support from professional counselling. A service called family counselling does not by itself establish that qualified counsellors provide it.

Support through talking with someone trained to help people understand and work through personal or relationship difficulties.

Counselling addresses difficulties that a social activity or religious class may not resolve. Couples experiencing conflict may need help communicating and working through problems. A parish can offer pastoral support or help people access specialist services, such as Marriage Care.

Support through talking about difficulties and exploring ways to address them, for example problems within a marriage.

Support from a trained person who helps someone explore difficulties, feelings and ways of coping.

Guidance through discussion that helps people understand and address personal or relationship difficulties.

Guidance and support that help people discuss difficulties and consider ways forward.

Support that helps someone discuss difficulties, feelings and possible ways forward. Professional counselling is provided by a trained counsellor; community services may use the term for religious guidance.

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