About Therapy
We see therapy as an opportunity to understand your current difficulties, sometimes linking this to past experiences. You may find yourself being caught up in unhelpful patterns of relationships and behaviour or it may be that you are in a crisis or particular transition in your life which needs supporting.
Counselling and psychotherapy can bring about a greater self-awareness through understanding unconscious processes, which can affect your relationships, everyday thinking and behaviour. The aim of psychotherapy and counselling is to provide a safe, non-judgemental and confidential environment in which you can begin to explore freely whatever is uppermost on your mind. Feelings, thoughts, wishes, fears, anxieties, memories and dreams can be explored within the relationship between you and the therapist.
Just as starting therapy can bring about hopes and expectations as well as anxieties so the ending may give rise to equally important feelings, which would need to be recognized and thought about.
The therapeutic process may therefore enable you to arrive at new perspectives making it possible for you to find different ways of coping with difficult life situations and effect changes that can be more helpful to you.
How long Does It Take?
We offer both short term and open-ended work, depending on your needs, which will be discussed at the initial consultation.
Sessions are usually 50 minutes long, once or twice a week, and at the same time every week. We also offer more intensive work.
What we offer:
• Individual counselling /psychotherapy
• Couple and relationship counselling including separation and divorce
• Art therapy
• Supervision for clinicians
• Open ended and short term work
• Once weekly or more frequent sessions
• In-depth analytic work
