Psychotherapy, It's Good to Talk

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:
Like behavioural psychotherapy, my aim is to help you change by looking at the correlation between your behaviour and thinking patterns, and like psychodynamic psychotherapy it encourages discussion of how you think and helps you to change, or eliminate destructive ways of thinking. Essentially once we change our thinking, this in turn affects our behaviour! I do not focus too much on the past - in a sense I focus more on the present and future. I have achieved particular success in the treatment of Anxiety and certain types of depression.

Family and Marital Therapy:
Often family/partner problems exist because of some difficulty you, or others, have as an individual(s). Sometimes, once you, or others, have resolved your/their personal issues, problems can often be resolved effectively. Sometimes, in fact often, family or marital issues can be 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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