It's Good to Talk

Classified as a talk therapy, psychotherapy is as much an altruistic process as it is a therapeutic one. It is the empathic nature of this style therapy that assists the process of  change to occur. The primary aim of the therapist is to first build a therapeutic relationship of trust, empathy and compassion with the client; they are the cornerstone of therapy; as they are of life!

The safety and trust the client feels with their therapist, allows them to explore all aspects of their issue. It helps them to understand the full panoply of emotion and feeling of their life experience, both within themselves and those they direct toward others.

The process of psychotherapy has the emotional, physical and mental wellbeing of the client at its heart. Psychotherapy is a journey the client undertakes, it provides a certain focus toward their inner experience and it allows them to reframe the past. This is important becasue we cannot change the past but we can, and do, change the way we see it.

Once we change the way we see the past, it feels different too! And essentially clients seek therapy not becasue of what they think; but rather because of how those thoughts make them feel! The negative experience of life is derived from the feeling of it; not the thought of it!

If you feel that psychotherapy is something you would like to know more about, I provide a free consultation, in confidence and without any obligation whatsoever.

All you've got to lose; is your problem!

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Psychotherapy styles:

There are many different types of psychotherapy and they are basically all ways of helping you to overcome stress, emotional problems, relationship problems, trauma or troublesome habits. What they have in common is that they are treatments based on talking and sometimes doing things together. Essentially, they are defined as the "talking therapies". The essence of the relationship, that exists between you and the Therapist, is trust and its empathic and non-judgmental nature.

Sometimes, Clients share things that they have kept to themselves for a long time or their entire life; such is the trust that develops in this relationship. Having the opportunity to share such delicate information, without being judged, can be a tremendous relief and can often be the trigger that sets change in motion.

Behavioural psychotherapy:
The emphasis in this style of Psychotherapy is to change patterns of your behaviour more directly. You can be helped to overcome your fears by spending more and more time in the situation you fear (desensitisation), or by learning ways of reducing your anxiety. You may be given 'homework' exercises, and asked to keep diaries or to practice new skills between sessions.

Behavioural psychotherapy is particularly effective for anxiety, panic, phobias, obsessive-compulsive problems and various kinds of social or sexual difficulty. Relief from your symptoms often occurs relatively quickly.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy CBT:
Like behavioural psychotherapy, my aim is to help you change by looking at the correlation between your behaviour and thinking patterns, as well as the self talk we us, which defines our sense of self. Often our self talk is directly related to the life difficulty we experience! And like psychodynamic psychotherapy CBT, encourages discussion of how you think and this helps you to change, or eliminate destructive ways of thinking. In essence, the articulation of our thoughts are a representation of our inner dialogue; self talk!

Essentially, once we change our inner dialogue our thinking changes, this in turn affects our behaviour! I have achieved particular success in the treatment of Anxiety and certain types of depression with this style of psychotherapy.

Family and Marital Therapy:
Often family/partner problems exist because of some difficulty you, or others, have as individuals. Sometimes once you or others have resolved your personal issues, the problem can often be resolved effectively. In family or marital therapy, issues can be better helped with some individual therapy.

The premise being that two perfect halves make a perfect whole. Of course I am not suggesting perfection; merely using this as a metaphoric example of what helps create a functional relationship. When we are in individual harmony within ourselves the outside world seems less conflicting. In a relative sense balance can only exist in the absence of conflict!

I feel it essential that we understand that we each have a personal life; that is ours and ours alone. But sometimes we feel it may be wrong to have such a personal self-relationship! Mostly, from my experience, it is the fear of being judged about the deepest aspects of our personal life that influence or cause the manifestation of personal and/or family problems.

Other times it may just be the result of the many differing personalities that make up these relationships. Sometimes what is needed is a greater understanding of life from the other person's perspective. In essence to have effective relationships, we need to become managers of people (including ourself)! Once mastered, we extend this valuable skill into every aspect of our life. This often has the result of positively enhancing many of the other relationships we have outside of the family/marriage; especially the relationship with our Self!

By focusing very clearly on the relationships involved, and by involving all the people concerned, family and marital family therapy seeks to help those relationships to work better. The aim of the Therapist is to  assist the Client(s) achieve the best outcome for them! Sometimes that outcome may not be the one first sought at the start of Therapy!

Can these different approaches work?
Yes, they are all very different sorts of treatment, but they all help us to understand better how we work, which helps us to make changes in our life.

I, often, use a combination of techniques to suit each individual, and you may progress from family/partner therapy to individual therapy, or visa versa.

What actually happens?
Psychotherapy usually involves regular meetings at the same time, same place every week or two weeks. In most cases the length of the treatment will be agreed within a couple of weeks or so of starting the therapy. What happens during a session is, of course, totally confidential.

If you have concerns about how your life is being affected by personal or relationship issues; please call to make an appointment and discuss your options.

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