{"id":549,"date":"2023-01-07T15:44:25","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T15:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brighter-pathways.co.uk\/?p=549"},"modified":"2023-07-02T09:58:37","modified_gmt":"2023-07-02T09:58:37","slug":"who-am-i-am-i-right-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brighter-pathways.co.uk\/index.php\/2023\/01\/07\/who-am-i-am-i-right-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Who am I? Am I Right For You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">When I look for a counsellor I look at their picture and ask myself &#8216;Can I work with this person?&#8217; I believe this is true of many other people who seek a counsellor. There may be other questions too, such as &#8216;Is the counsellor located close or far enough from my home or work?&#8217; &#8216;Is this counsellor affordable?&#8217; or even &#8216;Is this counsellor trained or experienced enough to help with my problem?&#8217;&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">So &#8216;Who am I?&#8217; and &#8216;What do I offer?&#8217; &#8216;Would you want to work with me?&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">How my experiences have shaped my appearance<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">My experiences growing up in the world were hard and these experiences made me think I needed to look scary on the outside, So I bulked up at the gym and got plastered in tattoo&#8217;s (Although I have 6 flowers). As time has gone on though I have wondered if I have needed to go the other way and soften. When people ask me &#8216;What do you do for a living?&#8217; They are often surprised to learn I have been a teacher and am now a counsellor. I have been told I look like a builder, a scaffold-er and have even been approached to do work that requires &#8216;Hands on&#8217; work for want of a better expression.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>How my experiences have shaped me on the inside<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As I said my experiences growing up were hard, but these have shaped me to be emphatic in a way that I can recognise how I have felt in situations and mirror a sense of knowing to my clients. I have learned to be non judgemental, I recognise we all have shadow parts of ourselves. Bits we would happily share with others and bits we would rather not. I have been taught compassion I see the best in others with a knowing we all strive to be the best versions of our selves we can possibly be.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I look for a counsellor I look at their picture and ask myself &#8216;Can I work with this person?&#8217; I believe this is true of many other people who seek a counsellor. There may be other questions too, such as &#8216;Is the counsellor located close or far enough from my home or work?&#8217; &#8216;Is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brighter-pathways.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brighter-pathways.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brighter-pathways.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brighter-pathways.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brighter-pathways.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brighter-pathways.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":706,"href":"https:\/\/brighter-pathways.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions\/706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brighter-pathways.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brighter-pathways.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brighter-pathways.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}