What is Therapy?

Therapy provides an opportunity to talk and think about issues in a safe and completely confidential environment.

Therapeutic work can be focussed on a particular difficulty and take a short time, or be more wide ranging and deeper and take longer.

Therapy may help you in the following ways:

• Talking is often a great relief.
• Identifying sources of difficulties.
• Recognising sources of conflicts.
• The relationship with the therapist may develop as an important part of the work, to further insight and self-understanding.

Therapeutic change may include:

• Becoming more self-aware.
• Feeling more in control of your life.
• Gaining more confidence and self-esteem.
• Leading a more fulfilled life.

Symptoms can often be greatly alleviated by putting words to them and understanding what lies behind them. This process can leave you with a new inner strength and become the foundation for long lasting change through insight and understanding.

Therapy is a process of exploration and personal development, offering different perspectives to those who want to learn more about themselves and live life more fully; those who want to find better ways to manage their lives and those in training to be practioners.

One of the best ways to find out if psychodynamic psychotherapy/counselling feels helpful to you is to arrange an initial consultation. In this way you can explore whether it is a way of working which feels beneficial.