Counselling and Psychotherapy
Counselling and psychotherapy offer an opportunity to gain greater understanding of yourself and the difficulties you are experiencing so that healing and a greater sense of balance and choice is available to you in your life.
By exploring, with a therapist, the issues involved, emotional and behavioural patterns can be seen and understood in a way that is different to self-exploration or exploration with another.
It is a collaborative process with you at the centre and the therapist facilitating an alternative awareness of the difficulties and issues you are struggling with.
Resolution and healing then become possible, and a greater sense of balance and choice is available to you. This can become reflected in the relationships and experiences you have in every day life.
The therapist will respect your values and your life choices.
People come to therapy and counselling for many different reasons:
A sense of unhappiness
A sense of loss of control in your life
An experience of trauma
Anxiety, depression and low mood
A sense of feeling overwhelmed and/or a sense of an absence of feeling
An awareness that their patterns of behaviour are not helpful to them
Counselling and Psychotherapy are terms that are often used interchangeably. The processes involved are often very similar.
It can be possible to think of them separately by considering counselling as a process that can be focussed on exploring and resolving a difficulty without necessarily giving a great deal of consideration to the source of that difficulty or the chronic nature of the difficulty.
Psychotherapy can generally be seen as a process which works to explore and resolve difficulties by understanding something about the source of the difficulty and the ongoing presence of the difficulty in your life.
“I am not what has happened to me. I am what I choose to become.” – Carl Jung