What is Psychotherapy?
Generally speaking, psychotherapy aims to alleviate psychological difficulties and distress by talking; it can be helpful in enhancing your understanding what you face frequently, exploring your motivations for your behaviour and bolstering or finding ways to cope with worry.
How? By exploring feelings, beliefs, thoughts and events both in your present and in your past, working with you, the psychotherapist is trained to draw attention to links and spot patterns that might be causing you concern and making you question your experiences – what they mean, why they turned out a particular way or how comes you feel as you do about them.
This is done in a safe and defined environment, at a pace that is suitable for you, namely the pace you choose.
Generally speaking, psychotherapy aims to alleviate psychological difficulties and distress by talking; it can be helpful in enhancing your understanding what you face frequently, exploring your motivations for your behaviour and bolstering or finding ways to cope with worry.
How? By exploring feelings, beliefs, thoughts and events both in your present and in your past, working with you, the psychotherapist is trained to draw attention to links and spot patterns that might be causing you concern and making you question your experiences – what they mean, why they turned out a particular way or how comes you feel as you do about them.
This is done in a safe and defined environment, at a pace that is suitable for you, namely the pace you choose.
What is the psychodynamic approach?
The psychodynamic approach has at its heart the idea that present difficulties and conflicts may have their roots in the past, that our early experiences and relationships may have a bearing on the way in which we experience the world and form our relationships in our present life.
Without even being aware of it we form patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving that could be helpful to us as we go along of our lives, however at times these patterns can become rigid and hinder the personal growth and the way we relate to people and to ourselves. Part of the work will be directed on recognising these patterns and finding the ways to make them more flexible and less rigid again. The psychodynamic therapist will not give you an advice or tell you how to resolve your issuers. Instead she will enable you to take your own decisions and make your own choices that are unique only to you. The opportunity in doing so is to attain or regain a sense of purpose, meaning and grip of your emotional life that may have been challenging.
The psychodynamic approach has at its heart the idea that present difficulties and conflicts may have their roots in the past, that our early experiences and relationships may have a bearing on the way in which we experience the world and form our relationships in our present life.
Without even being aware of it we form patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving that could be helpful to us as we go along of our lives, however at times these patterns can become rigid and hinder the personal growth and the way we relate to people and to ourselves. Part of the work will be directed on recognising these patterns and finding the ways to make them more flexible and less rigid again. The psychodynamic therapist will not give you an advice or tell you how to resolve your issuers. Instead she will enable you to take your own decisions and make your own choices that are unique only to you. The opportunity in doing so is to attain or regain a sense of purpose, meaning and grip of your emotional life that may have been challenging.
What is the difference between psychotherapy and counselling?
Well there are different ways to answer this question, as often both terms are used in interchangeable manner, although it is commonly accepted though that when we talk about psychotherapy we talk about work that is more in depth that is looking at problems that have built up over number of years and usually have roots in the past.
Counselling is usually shorter in length and more focused on exploring one or two issues that are underlined by a client as being problematic. It is generally for people who have a good sense of well-being but are currently face difficulties and need some support.
Nonetheless, it is a possibility for the work that originally started as counselling to progress into psychotherapy. For example, you may realise that the issuer that you came to talk about is not your main concern and you may want to explore in more depth some other issues that became more apparent after the start of your counselling.
Well there are different ways to answer this question, as often both terms are used in interchangeable manner, although it is commonly accepted though that when we talk about psychotherapy we talk about work that is more in depth that is looking at problems that have built up over number of years and usually have roots in the past.
Counselling is usually shorter in length and more focused on exploring one or two issues that are underlined by a client as being problematic. It is generally for people who have a good sense of well-being but are currently face difficulties and need some support.
Nonetheless, it is a possibility for the work that originally started as counselling to progress into psychotherapy. For example, you may realise that the issuer that you came to talk about is not your main concern and you may want to explore in more depth some other issues that became more apparent after the start of your counselling.
Does psychodynamic therapy work?
What is widely accepted by professionals in the area of therapy is for it to be effective, it requires the therapeutic ‘fit’ between client and therapist.
This ‘fit’ includes the trust and empathy that is needed in order to work together, plus the awareness that it starts and ends with you; it might be difficult to talk, but it is in doing so that the work begins and you ask the questions of the situations you need to or perhaps acknowledge them by speaking them aloud in the first place.
Psychodynamic therapy aims for a deeper understanding of underlying patterns and conflicts, rather than focusing solely on the relief of symptoms. With this in mind, and an ongoing commitment to regular weekly sessions, there is the possibility for lasting change.
What is widely accepted by professionals in the area of therapy is for it to be effective, it requires the therapeutic ‘fit’ between client and therapist.
This ‘fit’ includes the trust and empathy that is needed in order to work together, plus the awareness that it starts and ends with you; it might be difficult to talk, but it is in doing so that the work begins and you ask the questions of the situations you need to or perhaps acknowledge them by speaking them aloud in the first place.
Psychodynamic therapy aims for a deeper understanding of underlying patterns and conflicts, rather than focusing solely on the relief of symptoms. With this in mind, and an ongoing commitment to regular weekly sessions, there is the possibility for lasting change.