Who Can Benefit from Therapy?
Therapy provides the opportunity to make sense of who we are and how we are each affected by our earliest relationships and experiences. Working in the here-and-now of the present we take stock of our pasts as we move into our futures. It is not, however, a quick fix. So, to benefit fully from therapy you must be committed to yourself and the process.
What issues can therapy deal with?
Psychotherapy is useful for any life challenge or issue, including relationships, family problems, work issues, addictions, and just feeling overwhelmed with depression or anxiety.
From time to time, we may experience a range of difficulties which disturb the equilibrium of our thinking, feeling and behaviour as we fall back on our innate, survival defences. Such disturbances may stem from transition and loss, physical and mental illness in ourselves or others, displacement, abuse, educational and work pressures and severe and complex trauma.
They can manifest physically, emotionally and behaviourally as, for example:
- Crying
- Anger
- Fear
- Depression
- Isolation
- Suicidal ideation
- Lack of self esteem
- School refusal
- Truancy
- Self harm
- Anxiety
- Changes to appetite
- Hair loss
- Skin conditions
- Headaches
- Digestive problems
- Sexual difficulties
- Illness
