Mental health counselling

Kipos (The Garden) is offering mental health systemic counselling sessions to individuals and groups. Which means, that it focuses on the inter-connectedness between us. Most problems people face have to do with relationships: relationships to other humans (or not), but also the diverse aspects of their selves. The latter often reflect attitudes and roles that we meet in social fields but not exclusively.

In the Garden we focus on methodologies of the metamodern systemic therapies (solution-focused, dialogical and narrative therapy). We perceive the counselling procedure as a dynamic process, where everything flows: approaches adapt to individual or group needs, as well as circumstances.

At the same time, we recognise that it is impossible to enter any counselling relationship without awareness of the power relationships among those involved in it – regardless of whether the persons (or institutions) involved are present at the time or not. With the language we speak, we do not just express different realities and states of consciousness, but we also construct them, we call them into existence even for a split second. In a way, language (co)constructs the worlds in which we live. And in this context, the role of the counsellor is to be able to listen, co-creating thus a framework that allows for dialogue and reflection to emerge.

Communication of course, never takes place exclusively in words (either written or spoken). Expressions, gestures, body movement come to complete, support, question or directly object to what is being said.

The body, too, has its own wisdom. And it couldn’t be otherwise. As Andy Fisher (2002) suggests “we body-forth our experience”. Hence, in the counseling process, body sensations (proprioception), but also the experience of movement (kinesthesis) are creatively included in a dialogical sense.

Our indoor counselling space