PSYCHOTHERAPY
It is important to recognize that the decision to seek therapy is a positive one, a sign of hope and health. Many who would benefit from therapy are unable to take this risk.
For us, psychotherapy is a way to free people from destructive patterns of behaviour rooted in the past. These were formed where they were the best available response to emotionally or physically damaging situations. But many years later, these early patterns have become liabilities, restricting our growth, freedom, and ability to find emotionally satisfying relationships and courses of action.
Therapy involves you telling your personal story as honestly and truthfully as you can. Your therapist’s guidance and support through this process helps you gain insight. Putting your life into words in this way gives it a different meaning, and helps you to regard the past differently. We concentrate on the sense you have made of the past. When this changes, so does your life.
The aim of therapy is not to blame, but to understand and forgive. Not just to forgive others, but just as importantly, yourself.
The following are amongst the reasons individuals have come to us for therapy:
· To find a constructive response to a relationship, situation or job that feels stuck.
· They want to find a safe space to explore thoughts and feelings which they cannot share with friends, partners or colleagues.
· They want insight into repetitive patterns of relationship which are unsatisfactory or ways in which they are sabotaging their own potential for success.
· They want to speak to someone who doesn’t have an agenda when listening.
· They are constantly fighting off negative thoughts and feelings about themselves.
- They feel cut off, alone or alienated from others.