FAQs

What is Psychotherapy or Counselling and how does it help you?

Counselling take place when a counsellor sees a client in a private and confidential setting to explore a difficulty the client is having, distress they may be experiencing or perhaps their dissatisfaction with life, or loss of a sense of direction and purpose. Counselling is a way of enabling choice or chance or of reducing confusion.

In counselling session, clients are supported to explore various aspect of their life and feelings such as anger, anxiety, shame and much more with openness, with the possibility of making them easier to understand.

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What benefits can we get from therapy?

All therapeutic encounters lead to life-enhancing outcome for clients. Therapy could mean different things to individual; it could be an avenue where client feel listened to with openness and without judging, this could result to individual developing new perspective and opportunity through their problem. Therapy is an amazing opportunity to gain insight into one’s feeling and emotions, it is a place where clients encounters lead to it will facilitate freedom of choice and possibilities for change. Talking therapies can help with many difficult life problems – from coping with traumatic experiences and events, to dealing with depression and anxiety or managing harmful emotions and behaviours.

What is Anxiety?

Anxiety is common in mental illness or after extreme or distressing experiences. You may feel intense apprehension or worry, accompanied by acute physical signs such as:

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rapid heartbeat
palpitations
dizziness
irritability

Therapy can help you with anxiety, panic attacks and phobias by giving you ways of dealing with situations as they occur and exploring the cause of your feelings.

What is Depression?

Depression can be a devastating illness that affects your body, mood, behaviour and thoughts. It is not a sign of weakness or failure, and it’s not something that can be changed overnight. Without treatment, symptoms can be present for years, preventing you from functioning to your full ability. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) currently recommends a range of psychological therapies for the treatment of depression.

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