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Counselling is suitable for specific issues and is generally short term. It often leads to gaining new insights, increased self-esteem and self-awareness and finding new ways forward.
Psychotherapy is more suitable if you wish to gain a deeper understanding of your symptoms and behaviour and for those people whose symptoms are persistent, repetitive or less specific. This is usually an open-ended process and longer in duration.
The therapist’s aim is to enable you to speak about the issue you are experiencing, listen and understand it from your perspective, accept you for who you are and encourage you for who you could be. There are different approaches that may be used in the process including; looking into your past and family relationships, focussing on the present day, supporting you through difficult emotions, paying attention to how emotions are held in the body, using techniques such as dreams and images, and also using the ‘here and now’ experience of the therapy itself.
Being in this supportive process can help to:
- develop awareness of your inner world that helps you understand yourself more
- provide support during times of crisis or transition
- see things from a different perspective
- provide an opportunity for change
- make sense of your circumstances
- find your own meaning and new possibilities
Our therapists use an Integrative Psychosynthesis approach. This is a holistic way of working that embraces the whole person – the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual.
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