Psychotherapy & Counselling
How Can Therapy Help You?
Talking to someone who gives you their total attention and empathy can help you see yourself and your situation more clearly. It can release you from being alone with difficult or confusing thoughts and feelings. Seeing them in a new light can clarify them and help you see a way through, and may enable you to work out what—and how—you want to change.
It may also help you come to terms, and cope more effectively, with those things you cannot change.
Counselling
In counselling, the experience of talking through sensitive or painful issues can help restore a sense of order in our minds. This can significantly reduce anxiety levels. Having things clarified by a skilled listener can in itself bring relief and a fresh understanding. Hearing the therapist's perspective can also make us think about ourselves and our situation differently.
Psychotherapy
In psychotherapy, a more sustained process of addressing underpinning patterns of behaviours, feelings and thoughts can bring about deeper changes. This may include a detailed exploration of thoughts that cause negative emotional states and reactions. Understanding and seeing these patterns may show us different ways of relating, potentially reducing anxiety and reactivity.