Psychotherapy
If your human you can benefit from Psychotherapy
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We all carry emotional hurts and wounds from our past experiences, and we develop and adapt our way of being as a result, depending on the patterns of thinking and feeling about ourselves, others and the world we acquired. We are formed through our interactions in relationships with others and shaped by our reactions to our experiences.- We all experience times of emotional pain and suffering as well as moments of joy. Experiences impact us, sometimes they make us better and sometimes they side-swipe us and we might struggle to recover. Recovery is often about trying to make sense of things, to face up to what happened; to have a coherent story; to connect with our vulnerable feelings and ultimately to find a place of acceptance and compassion for ourselves and to others so so that we can move forward unburdened and more freely.
When we develop as children, we mold and adapt ourselves to the adults around us. We kind of figure out what we have to be in order to be okay, fit in and get our needs met. The trouble is, what we learnt to do as children may not now work so well for us as adults. Psychotherapy helps to make those childhood ways of reasoning more conscious so they can be re-evaluated in the present reality.
Psychotherapy assists the process of healing the wounds of your childhood experiences so that you can grow up and fully mature into the authentic person you want to be. It may involve resolving inner conflicts and dilemma's as well as recovering from past or recent trauma. Often current presenting issues like stress, anxiety, depression, addictive behaviours, relationship difficulties have their roots in our earlier life. We cant change what happened in the past but we can find a way for it to stop showing up in the present and bothering us so much.
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Here is a helpful video that explains Psychotherapy
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Psychotherapy Sessions
Psychotherapy sessions last for 50 minutes in regular weekly slots.
Sessions are most effective in person and take place in a confidential space.
I can work with you online via Teams or Google Meet if in person contact is not possible.
£80 a session.
I am available Monday and Tuesday afternoon, Wednesday and Thursday morning and Friday morning. Some early evening appointments may be possible by arrangement
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You can view Psychotherapy as a form of counselling, but it is a bit different to counselling, in that counselling may focus on a particular issue and tends to last for a shorter period. Psychotherapy tends to require a longer-term relational process, with a focus on working together at relational depth. The focus is on gaining greater insight and awareness into emotions and feelings, and habitual patterns of behaviour that no longer serve you. It aids in evaluating images of yourself and others that may hinder your engagement and potential in the present day or are contributing to the ongoing issues you are facing. With greater conscious awareness, new possibilities emerge for new decisions, choices and actions.
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In Psychotherapy, forgotten, sometimes buried experiences from the past can be re-evaluated in the present and things that have been unconsciously influencing or ruling our lives become more conscious. This leads to greater self-understanding and self-knowledge, which in turn leads to greater psychological flexibility and freedom of choice in how you decide to behave today.
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Psychotherapy is a learning and development process that can help to alleviate current psychological suffering and pain by focusing on emotions and discovering the foundation or the root of the presenting problems in order to resolve it. Held in a supportive and nurturing relationship with the therapist allows you to work through your past, create a coherent narrative, and feel more secure in the present. In time you can heal the past; recover and define your authentic self; overcome self-defeating patterns so that you experience greater autonomy, spontaneity and intimacy, improved executive functioning and less emotional reactivity.
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Psychotherapy gives you a space to make sense of yourself; the life events and relationships that have influenced and moulded you into the person you are. With this awareness you can make new choices, find and release new energy and untapped potential, giving you greater freedom to move purposefully into the future, being the person, you freely choose to be.
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