Who can benefit from psychotherapy?

Psychotherapy can help those who:

 

• Feel anxious and unable to cope with the burdens of life 

• Experience an underlying sense of sadness or dissatisfaction 

• Possess a lack confidence or feel they are not adequately fulfilling their potential 

• Experience difficulty making or sustaining relationships or who are repeatedly drawn into unhappy partnerships 

• Find it hard to come to terms with a life change such as bereavement, divorce or job loss 

• Express emotional problems through physical symptoms 

Psychotherapy has been repeatedly clinically demonstrated to be of benefit for most people in most situations.

 

Benefits following a course of psychotherapy treatment might include:

• The lifting of a depression

• No longer feeling afraid or angry or anxious

• A significant lessening of distress, depression or anxiety

• Better able to cope with social or family relationships, and so receive more satisfaction from them

• You may better understand your personal goals and values and thus enabling you to grow and mature as a person