What is Psychotherapy?
Psychotherapy tends to involve helping people with deeper mental and
emotional issues or with a problem that is long standing and not easy
to define. It can help you to get to know yourself better, and find out
what lies below the surface of your everyday awareness. By
exploring your life and relationships (past and present), therapy aims
to help you to become more aware of your thoughts, feelings, actions
and perceptions. It can help discover answers to such questions
as:
- why do I feel like this?
- why does this kind of thing keep happening to me?
- why do I always choose the wrong relationship?
Psychotherapy offer a safe and confidential space to help you explore
what is going on. Your concerns will be taken seriously and you
will be listened to with acceptance and respect. You will not be
judged, nor will you be given advice.
The kind of things that people bring to psychotherapy include:
Relationship difficulties
Anxiety
Being unhappy or depressed
Feelings of being stuck or dissatisfied
Having a sense that something is ‘not right’ without being able to put your finger on it
Sexuality
Loss of a sense of meaning in your life
Bereavement or loss
Coming to terms with an illness
A past or present traumatic event
All kinds of people, of all ages, access psychotherapy. You do
not need to have a problem, you may just want to talk through areas of
life that are not satisfying.
Psychotherapy involves once or twice weekly 1 hour sessions over an extended period of time.