Practicing in the City of London, it is impossible to be unaware or ignore the changes taking place in the financial market. We have come to expect professional and financial security in a booming economy. It has been easy to forget the ravages of the 1980s and for younger people in the City of course this is their first experience of a major decline and probably recession.
The situation in the City is altering with alarming rapidity, so naturally the atmosphere is changing too. Threats of redundancy loom and fear intensifies, bringing with it very human responses such as shock, anxiety, insomnia, panic attacks and feelings of hopelessness and depression. Consumption of alcohol and recreational drug use increase. A normally highly motivated banker said to me recently that all his motivation had gone and that he was finding it challenging to go each day to the job that he usually loves.
Frequently, self-worth. esteem and confidence are tied-up with career, so when that career is jeopardised, it can be destabilising and disorienting.
Counselling for redundancy, to prepare for possible redundancy or to manage the feelings and physical symptoms that come about when we feel overwhelmed, can be a very positive support structure to create for yourself. Many people feel alone with their worries and fears, believing that they shouldn’t show how they feel to their colleagues or families. Suppressing these feelings transforms them into symptoms.
I have a great deal of experience of professionally supporting CEOs, partners, senior managers and entrepreneurs through major change processes. If you would like professional and personal support during a challenging time, please email me amanda@psychotherapycity.co.uk or call me on 0777 557 0208.
Amanda Falkson. Psychotherapycity.
Humanistic Psychotherapist & Counsellor in Central London.
© Amanda Falkson 2005
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