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Everything that irritates us about others
can lead to an understanding of ourselves
Carl Jung

Everyone is unique and as such will experience life uniquely. Mostly in life when troubles hit or difficulties arise, we use our own creativity and resilience to work them through. Sometimes though no matter what we try we can end up feeling lost or stuck. This can be intensely painful and frustrating even debilitating but is often the point at which alternative ways will be sought to address the problem.

Psychotherapy is one way people could choose so what is it?

UKCP definition
Psychotherapy is the provision by qualified practitioners of a formal and professional relationship within which patients/clients can profitably explore difficult, and often painful, emotions and experiences. These may include feelings of anxiety, depression, trauma, or perhaps the loss of meaning of ones life. It is a process which seeks to help the person gain an increased capacity for choice, through which the individual becomes more autonomous and self determined. Psychotherapy may be provided for individuals or children, couples, families and groups.

People choose to come to therapy for all sorts of reasons. There may be specific symptoms such as depression, anxiety or feelings of wanting to commit suicide or self harm.

Alternatively and without knowing why, there may be an underlying worry that things aren’t quite right or that life is flat and unfulfilling. Over time these feelings can create a sense of lost direction.

Others may be well aware of hurtful situations that keep re-occurring but become dispirited, angry or frustrated when no matter what they try the same things seem to keep happening.

The process of psychotherapy works to build a professional, confidential relationship that facilitates the clients own natural process of developing awareness and insight.

Psychotherapists don’t prescribe medication unless they are also trained as medical doctors with a current licence to practice. As a general rule it will be GP’s or psychiatrists who prescribe medication when necessary.

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