What is Psychotherapy: The Therapeutic Structure
Psychotherapy and counselling works, in part, because it offers the individual a safe, confidential environment from which to explore difficult feelings. The therapeutic structure, or 'frame' is made up of a few components that help the individual feel safe and able to explore difficult issues.
The Components that make up the psychotherapeutic structure are:
Your therapist - who remains with you throughout your journey in psychotherapy and counselling
A time frame - each psychotherapy or counselling session is 50 minutes in length.
The psychotherapy or counselling sessions are weekly - ideally at the same time and on the same day each week.
The room you will be seen in - you will be seen in the same room for psychotherapy/counselling each week.
The structure of the psychotherapy/counselling will help you feel at ease, build trust with your therapist and give you a safe place to explore your difficult thoughts and feelings.
At The Cavendish Psychotherapy Practice in Harley Street, Central London, we offer our clients professional psychotherapy and counselling and respect our client's needs.
How Can Psychotherapy and Couneslling Help?
Psychotherapy and counselling can help you gain understanding of overwhelming feelings or unwanted behaviours. In gaining an understanding of feelings and behaviours, psychotherapy can help you gain control of these difficulties.
Psychotherapy and counselling can help in decreasing your stress levels. By sharing thoughts, fears and anxieties with an experienced, professional psychotherapist you will gain relief, clarity, reduced stress and be able to find a healthier way forward.
Psychotherapy and counselling can help you build healthier relationships. Through the examination of relationship problems in psychotherapy and counselling, you will gain a better understanding of how your relationships work. In examining repeated patterns in relationships, expectations of others and of yourself for example, psychotherapy and counselling will help you discover how the difficulties arise and help you move forward into healthier patterns of relating.
Psychotherapy and counselling can help build your self esteem and confidence. By sharing your difficult feelings with a psychotherapist/counsellor you will be listened to and understood. From this understanding, your psychotherapist will help you build your self value, encouraging you to see yourself and value yourself in different, and more healthy, ways.
Psychotherapy and counselling can help you eliminate self destructive patterns of behaviour and patterns of thinking. By examining the root cause of the destructive patterns, with your psychotherapist or counsellor, you will gain an understanding of why you are behaving destructively and, together with your therapist, find a healthier way forward.
On the left are listed some of the issues with which our psychotherapist / counsellors regularly work.
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