Psychotherapy
What is Psychotherapy?
Emotional and mental difficulty, of one kind or another, is an inevitable feature of living a human life. How we experience ourselves and relate to others, can sometimes be deeply troubling. Also, we can notice an unhelpful pattern emerging regarding these experiences.
Psychotherapy, with its 125 year history in the Western scientific tradition, has emerged as a reliable method to address a range of emotional and psychological difficulties that can arise for someone.
The method of psychotherapy involves two people coming together, each with a talking and listening part. The purpose of this coming together is to meaningfully address whatever difficulty is occurring for the person seeking treatment.
The kinds of difficulties that can be addressed with psychotherapy include troubling feelings and thoughts, issues in relationships and work, feeling dissatisfied with one’s circumstances, or feeling daunted by upcoming changes.
Through the work of psychotherapy, an exploration of one’s current life and experiences will occur. Often, understanding how this may relate to one’s past will develop.
A benefit of psychotherapy is in how it can allow one to occupy, with greater confidence, the ‘driver’s seat’ of one’s life and move forward in more purposeful and meaningful ways.
“Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images”.
– J.M. Cocteau
What Can Psychotherapy Assist With?
People seek psychotherapy for many different reasons and for many different difficulties. For example, issues explored and addressed in psychotherapy can include:
Experiencing depression and anxiety, or feeling trapped within a pattern of these thoughts and feelings
Difficulties, sometimes of a recurring nature, in maintaining relationships, or in feeling understood and connected with others
Coping and processing significant events, such as a loss, trauma, and unexpected change
Feeling anxious and apprehensive during times of change and uncertainty
An unhappiness with one’s life circumstances and direction
