What is Psychotherapy?
Psychotherapy involves conversations with a listener who is trained to help you make sense of, and try to change, things that are troubling you. As well as giving you a chance to unburden yourself, your Therapist will also be trying to pick up hidden patterns and meanings in what you are saying. These hidden patterns are often not in your conscious awareness and through the conversations in the therapy sessions, these patterns are identified and made known to you. The therapist is also interested in the way you are relating to her, and how this invariably links with other problematic relationships in both your present and past experiences of life.
Psychotherapy typically lasts much longer than cognitive behaviour therapy because it aims to influence deeper layers of the personality, which subsequently produce more long term, lasting changes in behaviour. Typically, sessions are once per week, but can sometimes be twice a week, depending on current needs. In addition, weekly Group Psychotherapy is now being offered as an evidence based alternative to individual therapy to address many relationship and communication difficulties. All Psychologists at Freedom in Spirit Psychology are trained to work as Psychotherapists, and have undergone specialist supervision in this effective area of expertise.
Psychotherapy typically lasts much longer than cognitive behaviour therapy because it aims to influence deeper layers of the personality, which subsequently produce more long term, lasting changes in behaviour. Typically, sessions are once per week, but can sometimes be twice a week, depending on current needs. In addition, weekly Group Psychotherapy is now being offered as an evidence based alternative to individual therapy to address many relationship and communication difficulties. All Psychologists at Freedom in Spirit Psychology are trained to work as Psychotherapists, and have undergone specialist supervision in this effective area of expertise.
