Psychotherapy Have you noticed how you have some character traits which are so ingrained that they stop you getting on with life? They become the hurdle that becomes increasingly difficult to jump in the race of life.
~Are you curious as to why you behave the way you do in everyday situations?
~Do you have a string of failed relationships which seem to have a common thread running through them?
~Are your relationships with family strained through non-communication or mis-communication?
~Do you make the same mistakes at work when dealing with colleagues or customers?
In simplest terms, it is the analysis of these instincts and unconscious behaviours that come from memories or thoughts that we may have buried away; that is at the basis of psychotherapy.
In true classic Freudian style of yesteryear, you may have images of laying on a chaise lounge while saying whatever came into your mind in the process of ‘discovering’ these buried memories. A process that could perhaps, take months or years.
Psychotherapy today has a more modern feel and its edges can be blurred into the other talking therapies available, such as counselling.
To know why you behave the way you do and make effective changes to enable you to live the life you want to, it is important to know what makes you the way you are.
Simply by becoming aware of what makes you tick is the start of making you change. Psychotherapy is not 
about chronicling your past or blaming others or seeking revenge it is most simply put as ‘UNDERSTANDING.’
Neither it is necessary to be a long and painful process. It is to understand and untangle the past and then move on to the present and future where we must all reside.
Is Psychotherapy Right For Me?
For anyone who wishes to understand themself more or who are at a turning point in their life and don’t want to keep making the same mistakes over and over, psychotherapy can help them face the future with confidence. Some people have likened it to finding the instruction manual to their life. The things that never worked before now seem to fall into place easily.
What is important and forms the basis of the sessions of psychotherapy is what to so with this new found knowledge you have. As much time within each session will be devoted into putting new behaviour patterns into place as to finding out what put them there in the first place.
It’s important to view counselling as part of the journey and not the final destination. We evolve through our experiences and situations and counselling helps get over the bumps on the road.
Neither does it have to be a painful journey.
Within all psychotherapy sessions, I endeavour to make the discussions as enjoyable as possible.
Q: Do Your Counselling and Psychotherapy Services Overlap?
A:Most certainly yes, it’s almost impossible to draw a dividing line down the middle of two. You are a totally unique person and there is no ‘one size fits all’ therapy. I prefer to draw from a selection of techniques and create a solution that is an individual as you are.
Q:What is the difference between counselling and psychotherapy?
A:Aaah! The subject of much debate between the great and good of both professions. There is no strict answer. Many would say that the two cross over. Many would draw a total division between the two. Theoretical differences abound and it is probably a debate that will continue for many years.
The talking therapies have advanced so far from the days of Messrs Jung and Freud that although many of the components stay the same, there is a far greater understanding of the human mind and with that a bigger range of treatments available. Hypnotherapy, NLP, EFT, Timeline Therapy to name a few.
All that matters is:
YOU FEEL BETTER ABOUT YOURSELF AND YOUR LIFE!
To find out how psychotherapy can help you, please give me a call and we can have an initial, no commitment chat to see what would be best for you. Please call me on 0778 608 24 63 (if the answering machine is on, please leave a message and I will get back to you very shortly).
