Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy is a process of exploring clients unconscious motivations formed during early life experiences. The client is encouraged to reflect on matters uppermost in his/her mind during regular 50 minute sessions.
Feelings, thoughts, wishes, memories and dreams can be explored within the relationship between therapist and client, and individuals can be helped to understand unconscious processes which affect their everyday thought and behaviour. In this way Psychotherapy may gradually bring about a greater degree of self understanding and enable the individual to find more appropriate ways of being, and of coping with difficulties.
Psychotherapy may be helpful for those who suspect that difficulties affecting the quality of their lives are emotional or psychological in origin. Most people experience emotional problems at some stage of life which are often resolved without outside help. However, sometimes they persist, perhaps because current issues have stirred up feelings from the past of which the person is not consciously aware. Emotional problems may be experienced in a variety of ways:
- Feelings of anxiety and an inability to cope or concentrate
- Feelings of emptiness, sadness or depression
- Lack of confidence or feelings of underachievement
- Excessive shyness
- Difficulty in making or sustaining relationships, or repeatedly becoming involved in unsatisfying or destructive relationships
- Sexual problems
- Extreme mood swings
- Difficulty in coming to terms with losses such as bereavement, divorce, or loss of a job
- Physical symptoms
- Eating disorders
- Obsessional behaviour
- Phobias
- Panic attacks