How to Choose the Right Therapy or Counselling for You?
Before therapy begins, you will have an introductory meeting with your counsellor therapist. During this session, you will be able to speak to her about the issues that have brought you into therapy. Together, you and she will discuss your needs and the kind of therapy that will be best suited to you. If, at the end of this session you want to go ahead, you will be able to book an appointment, usually for the following week.
Individual Therapy: Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy is a model of therapy that is analytic in nature. It is a form of in depth therapy that focuses on exploring the patient's unconscious psyche in order to alleviate stress and psychic tension. It is therefore a longer term therapy, that can last from six sessions to several years, depending upon the patient.
The concept of most psychodynamic therapy approaches is that some maladaptive psychological functioning has taken place during the patient's development and that at least some of this is unconscious. It is presumed that this maladaption started early in childhood and eventually causes a dissonance in every day life. The exploration of these early experiences is therefore a key part of the analytic therapies with the aim of revealing and resolving the unconscious concepts that lie behind the symptoms.
The therapist endeavours to keep their personality out of the relationship with the patient in order to present a 'blank canvas' onto which the patient can project or transfer deep feelings about themselves, their early care givers or significant others in their life. The therapist can then handle all the feelings and information that emerge, to gradually help patients deal with their issues and gain a better understanding of what their disturbances are and how their mind works.
Some of the techniques used by psychodynamic psychotherapists include, recognising resistance and transference, working through painful memories and difficult issues, free association and building a strong therapeutic alliance.
The Cavendish Psychotherapy Psychotherapists have worked with many patients on a long term basis in order to help them understand their emotional processes better through in depth exploration of their experiences.
See also:
Cognitive Analytic Psychotherapy
Focused, Short Term Therapy
Stress Counselling
Couples Counselling
For couples counselling and adult family counselling see our separate pages
On the left are listed some of the issues with which our psychotherapist / counsellors regularly work.
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