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What is Psychotherapy: How Does Therapy Work?

Psychotherapy is a journey of self exploration that you embark upon with your therapist.  Revealing your thoughts and feelings to a stranger is not always easy but the trained psychotherapist provides a confidential, non judgemental and empathic environment where trust can be built and exploration can commence.

Through therapy you will be led to greater self understanding and self awareness; an understanding of the cause of your difficulties and an awareness of  why you are feeling the way you are feeling.  Looking at past experiences and emotional patterns can be useful as early experiences can determine how you behave and feel as adults. Early relationships with parents or carers often define the relationships we have in later life, both with others as well as with ourselves. Through therapy, we become more conscious of our patterns of behaviour and emotional functioning. This sense of self awareness leads to a greater sense of wellbeing, freedom and personal authority.

During psychotherapy, defences will be confronted and underlying anxieties uncovered that can reveal true and intensely experienced feelings. Making connections between these defences, anxieties and true feelings can develop new 'self-awareness', and a capacity to understand difference in others and in the world in which you live, so that you can begin to bear what might have felt unbearable.

On the left are listed some of the issues with which our psychotherapist / counsellors regularly work.