What is psychotherapy?

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak Whispers the o' erfraught heart and bids it break
William Shakespeare, Macbeth

Psychotherapy is processes of helping a person explore their problems and worries in a non-judgemental and confidential setting. This involves looking at the past, early conditioning and ways of forming relationships.

Psychoanalytic psychotherapy is an effective treatment for many emotional and relationship problems and seeks to understand the meaning of symptoms and patterns of behaviour. It seeks to address complex and deep-seated distress, which leads to reducing symptoms and alleviating suffering.

Psychotherapy can help those who:

• Have suffered bereavement and loss recently or in the past
• Have problems in forming and sustaining relationships
• Have lost meaning in one's life
• Have lost confidence and self esteem
• Suffer from anxiety and panic attacks
• Feel depressed or suffer from clinical depression
• Feel the lack of fulfilment of potential
• Have suffered form persecution and loss through change of status and country
• Have suffered the trauma of separation or divorce and isolation
• Suffer from eating problems
• Have suffered the trauma of a diagnosis of a major illness or cancer or a terminal illness
• Have work related stress, bullying, redundancy or retirememt.

Code of Ethics

Most people can feel a little apprehensive about seeing psychotherapist. In the initial consultation you will have a chance to come and air your anxieties and thoughts and to ask any questions you may have and to decide if psychotherapy is appropriate for you.

Psychotherapy involves a series of stages and development and is a process. It is important you feel safe and comfortable enough. The UKCP and BACP are the regulatory bodies responsible for setting standards of good practice. I am registered with the UKCP and a member of the BACP and follow their code of ethics and good practice.
 

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