About Psychotherapy & Counselling
The aim of talking to a psychotherapist or counsellor is to enable you to make sense of what is going on for you at the present time, as well as perhaps addressing past experiences and how they impact on your life and the person that you are today. Therapy provides a safe and confidential setting in which to explore your thoughts, feelings, dreams and hopes.
What is counselling and psychotherapy?
When you come to see a therapist or counsellor you are encouraged to talk about the feelings you have about yourself and your situation.
The therapist will help you to explore connections between your present feelings and actions and past events.
Feelings, thoughts, anxieties, wishes, memories and dreams can be explored within the relationship. In this way individuals can be helped to understand unconscious processes which affect our everyday thought and behaviour.
Gradually a greater degree of self-understanding can be achieved, enabling you to find more appropriate ways of being and coping with difficulties.
It helps by -
Offering a reliable and confidential relationship
Providing support during times of crisis and transition
Deepening awareness of yourself and your relationships
Offering a safe place where you can speak about feelings that worry, frighten or overwhelm you
Making sense of recurring problems and exploring their links with the past
Challenging repeating unhelpful patterns of thought and behaviour.
What is counselling and psychotherapy?
When you come to see a therapist or counsellor you are encouraged to talk about the feelings you have about yourself and your situation.
The therapist will help you to explore connections between your present feelings and actions and past events.
Feelings, thoughts, anxieties, wishes, memories and dreams can be explored within the relationship. In this way individuals can be helped to understand unconscious processes which affect our everyday thought and behaviour.
Gradually a greater degree of self-understanding can be achieved, enabling you to find more appropriate ways of being and coping with difficulties.
It helps by -
Offering a reliable and confidential relationship
Providing support during times of crisis and transition
Deepening awareness of yourself and your relationships
Offering a safe place where you can speak about feelings that worry, frighten or overwhelm you
Making sense of recurring problems and exploring their links with the past
Challenging repeating unhelpful patterns of thought and behaviour.
