Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy through a qualified practitioner utilises a variety of techniques to resolve emotional concerns, including certain mental health and psychiatric disorders.

The therapy is framed within a formal professional relationship between client and therapist that involves discussion and exploration of frequently difficult, and even painful, emotions and experiences. It is often used to deal with psychological problems that have built up and persisted over numerous years. These may include feelings of anxiety, depression, trauma, or perhaps the loss of meaning of one’s life.

The aim is to assist a person in understanding what makes them feel positive or anxious and in the development of this, accept their strengths and weaknesses.

As such it is designed to encourage the communication of conflicts and insight into problems, with the goal being the relief of symptoms and changes in behaviour, which eventually lead to improved social and vocational functioning, as well as personality growth.

This practice of identifying feelings and ways of thinking helps the person to learn to cope with situations they previously found difficult and ultimately move beyond them to a solution.

Its methodology can often be combined with therapeutic approaches, such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) to create an all encompassing intervention.

It is a process that seeks to help the person gain an increased capacity for choice, through which the individual becomes more autonomous and self determined. Psychotherapy may be provided for individuals or children, couples, families and in groups.