Psychotherapy
In psychotherapy sessions we help people to understand how past experiences and relationships influence their day to day thoughts, choices, feelings and behaviours. Unhealthy patterns of feeling and behaviour are then explored. Distress is reduced by enabling people to disentangle themselves from unhelpful aspects of their past. Therapy tends to be open ended and carried out over the longer term.
How It Works?
In psychotherapy the therapist will encourage you to talk about your personal relationships and the thoughts you have about other people. You will be encouraged to discuss the past as well as the present. This will allow the therapist to identify links between past events and how you think and act now. This form of psychotherapy is usually quite intensive and requires long-term commitment.
Your therapist will be interested in the link between your relationships with others and your emotional problems. They will help you develop new approaches to dealing with interpersonal difficulties to help improve your mental health. We will take a holistic approach, focusing on your experiences, thoughts, feelings and actions to help improve your self-awareness. This type of therapy often involves activities such as writing or role-playing.
It is likely that after the first few sessions, the therapist will write down what you have talked about on paper, in order to map out problem patterns that have emerged. This is likely to bring a sense of clarity, and enable identifying specific area you would like to understand better, and change for the better.