There are many reasons why a person might consider therapy. You might hope to work on a specific problem/s you have identified in your life, or you may aim to build a better-understanding of how you relate to yourself and the world around you. We aim to see you as a whole person, acknowledging not only the problems you aim to address, but also the strengths, qualities and resources that have enabled you to take this step of seeking support and that can be built upon in therapy.
What can therapy help with?
- Relationship difficulties: including building and maintaining healthy and balanced relationships
- Managing symptoms of trauma (PTSD) and processing traumatic experiences
- Difficulties with understanding and coping with emotions
- Low mood and anxiety related difficulties
- Extreme shifts in mood: including anger
- Low self-confidence, self-esteem, self-worth and patterns of self-critical thinking
- Exploring and managing feelings of shame
- Adjustment to difficult life events e.g. job loss, bereavement
- Unhelpful ways of coping with distress, including substance-use, self-harm
Expectations for therapy
Therapy is a focused and active process. As part of your assessment, we would work with you to agree on key prioritised problems you want to explore, understand, and work through in therapy.
We will contract a number of sessions with you based on your individual need and national guidance for evidence-based treatments.
The aim of therapy is to make sense of the problem/s you’re facing and understand differing ways in which you could make changes in your life. For longstanding difficulties, this understandably can take time and practice, but therapy and the tools you build within this can provide the ongoing guidance you need to continue to work towards your goals for change.
Is therapy right for me?
We will explore with you whether you feel ready to engage with therapy and what this entails. We believe it is very important to carefully assess your needs and to consider whether we can offer you a therapy that is the right fit for you and so also at the right time for you. We believe in the “do no harm” philosophy including ensuring that people are not ‘set up to fail’. We will give honest and open advice about whether we believe we can support your needs.
Things to consider
- Can I attend a regular appointment on a given day and time?
- Can I undertake mutually agreed between-session tasks?
- Am I willing to consider other perspectives and be open to exploring these with my therapist?
- Do I feel like I have adequate resources around me to manage the emotional challenges that therapy can bring up?
- Am I willing to work in collaboration with my therapist and take ownership and responsibility of my needs?