Why Psychotherapy

Denial and avoidance are common coping mechanisms often used to deal with difficult and painful memories and emotions. Whilst they may provide short-term respite, they often leave the fundamental issues unresolved, encouraging increasing feelings of anxiety, depression, and isolation placing your sense-of-self under threat.

Psychotherapy gives a voice to what is painful and often suppressed. It provides a safe and secure way of shifting the root causes of distress from only a hunch or the unconscious to the conscious. Thoughts, emotions and beliefs can then be disentangled and placed into a more meaningful context.

Psychotherapy always begins with a journey. The partnership between yourself and your therapist provides a collaborative safe and non-judgemental space in which to gain important self-insight into repeating patterns of behaviour. Here you can share your stories, explore your beliefs and together find new meaning. By gently uncovering layer-by-layer your thoughts and feelings, you will begin to understand the relationships and events that have shaped you.

Gradually you will find yourself able to dispel the scripts that have become entrenched beliefs, creating the uncomfortable feelings and emotions that have brought you to psychotherapy. By taking brave steps with your therapist you will be able to take back control and realise a more authentic and fulfilling life journey.

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