Counselling and Psychotherapy
Most people experience periods of anxiety and low mood as they travel through life. Coming to terms with loss and disappointment can often be achieved without professional help. But sometimes, circumstances put unbearable strain on existing coping mechanisms. Problems such as bereavement, redundancy, or divorce often increase tension in relationships and can raise uncomfortable feelings from the past. All of this can make life feel unmanageable. However, through regular counselling and psychotherapy, it is possible to enhance existing coping strategies and gain new perspectives.
Your therapist can offer you a safe, respectful, and confidential environment for you to explore problems and issues which may be keeping you stuck or causing difficulties in your relationships. Drawing on ideas from psychoanalysis, psycho-dynamics, and neuroscience, therapists can offer a holistic approach which can be helpful in treating a wide variety of people and their individual needs, for example:
Anxiety or depression
Stress
Relationship issues
Bereavement and/or loss
Lack of confidence and low self-esteem/resilience
Work or study related problems
Abuse/problems from childhood
Lack of purpose/meaning in life generally
Transitions
A therapist will aim to help you make sense of your problems by exploring feelings, thoughts, dreams, memories, and patterns of behaviour. This can be a prolonged endeavour and requires commitment over time. However, a therapeutic relationship which develops gradually over time can be very creative and rewarding. It may help you to gain insight, effect long-term change, and give new meaning to your life.