Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy covers a wide range of techniques used to ease psychological stress. The main aim is to promote self-awareness, so you can understand why you think and behave the way you do and, more importantly, how you can change it as an individual. There are many different techniques that can be used to help you, so it is important that you are able to trust your therapist, so that the most effective methods are used for your particular circumstances.

Psychotherapy is often the next step after counselling as it will look at deeper, underlying causes of your behaviour and thought patterns and help you make the changes needed to improve the quality of your life and your relationships with others, both personally and professionally. It can be quite challenging, but it will help you to gain the tools required to make positive, long lasting changes. It is an empowering form of therapy that can set you free from emotional pain and distress.

As a trained and skilled Psychotherapist and Counsellor, I will be able to give you an objective view of the challenges you are currently facing as well as having insights and techniques to help you change the things you choose to change.

Psychotherapy is ideal if you are feeling 'stuck', don't know where to turn, or feel that certain things keep happening to you and make you unhappy. If you hate any aspect of yourself or your life, or if you are finding it difficult to cope, then Psychotherapy may be for you. Psychotherapy is a relationship and no relationship comes with a guarantee. What will be important in our sessions is the rapport between us, This is why so many practitioners are eclectic; that is, they may have a theoretical orientation that is closest to their heart, but they believe in many systems and practice with a variety of techniques.

If you think about your depressed friend who has nothing to be depressed about, why can't they see it? Why can't you just tell them so, give him some books about depression and how to overcome it, and end the problem that way? Of course the vulnerable, cautious, and withdrawn person became that way because they grew up with an intolerant, volatile parent; everyone who knows the family can see that, and they can see that this person has no reason anymore to be so scared. If they can see all this, why can't he do the same and get moving with their life?

Perhaps because its too painful. Your depressed friend is stuck in this depression partly because, believe it or not, it is easier to feel depressed than to face what really hurts. It is easier for them to believe that everything about themselves is worthless, than it is to cope with whatever else is going on in their life. That is why their depression seems so irrational to us, because it's a distraction from something else. These irrational patterns of feeling, perception, and behaviour are not chosen or established on a conscious level! Clearly most of us would not engage in such disfunctional behaviour on purpose. But these habits develop outside of awareness and non-verbally where we can't get at them.