Individual Psychotherapy
What are the benefits of individual psychotherapy?
There are times when the pressures of life become quite difficult to balance and sometimes these difficulties persist causing unhappiness at home, at work and in relationships.
This may be because these difficulties are stirring up feelings from the past of which the person is not consciously aware.
Psychotherapy facilitates in depth exploration of our blind spots, enables us to understand hidden aspects of ourselves and to work on breaking unhelpful patterns of behaviours.
According to psychoanalysis, to understand a person as a whole you have to consider both the conscious and unconscious mind.
Who might benefit?
Psychotherapy can help people who feel anxious and unable to cope with the burdens of life including people who:
Experience an underlying sense of sadness or dissatisfaction.
Possess a lack confidence or feel they are not adequately fulfilling their potential.
Experience difficulty making or sustaining relationships or who are repeatedly drawn into unhappy partnerships.
Find it hard to come to terms with a life change such as bereavement, divorce or job loss.
Express emotional problems through physical symptoms
How does it work?
Therapy helps us makes sense of thoughts, feelings and behaviours.
In a reliable and trusted setting you are encouraged to use the time for reflection.
Whatever is foremost on your mind is brought to the session and this will usually be a combination of your feelings, thoughts, memories and dreams.
As the relationship with the therapist develops you may discover new insights and more appropriate ways of self-regulating your emotions and managing your behaviours.
Sessions are held weekly and are regular and frequent so as to give as much continuity and support as possible.