What is Therapy?

Counselling and Psychotherapy

Many reasons can bring us to therapy, whether they are temporary difficulties, lifelong struggles, or the desire for personal development and growth.

When struggles with stress, negative thoughts, relationship difficulties, numbness, or certain life challenges become overwhelming, it can help to talk to a professional in a warm, confidential and non-judgmental space outside of your familiar environment.

Exploring difficult feelings can reduce their impact as you begin to make sense of your experience and discover new ways of coping. If you feel empty or cut off from your emotions, therapy can help you reconnect with yourself.

Whilst therapy isn’t always easy, looking at your difficulties can be liberating and life-transforming.

Treatment

Counselling, sometimes considered more for episodic work, can be part of the psychotherapy journey. Psychotherapy is a longer and more in depth process that needs the fullness of time to see substantial change. Ultimately, therapy depends on the depth of your therapist’s training and experience. Treatment may include:

  • Talking about whatever is on your mind today

  • Taking time to allow your feelings

  • Telling your life story and reviewing significant experiences

  • Considering your identity, confidence and sense of empowerment

  • Exploring how you make and sustain relationships

  • Mapping your memories, reflections on life and dreams

  • Discovering your core beliefs and their impact on your thoughts, feelings and behaviour

  • Developing new coping strategies