Psychotherapy

What is psychotherapy?

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Psychotherapy incorporates various approaches that work towards improving your mental health and overall wellbeing. 

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Past traumatic experiences can impact the way you think and behave, your responses often develop into habitual tendencies and may not be within your conscious awareness.

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Psychotherapy can support you to develop improved self-awareness and learn ways to overcome or cope with mental health difficulties and any overwhelming thoughts and feelings. 

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Process

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You will be provided with regular weekly sessions in which you can develop a trusting relationship with your therapist.  This will allow you to feel safe in exploring your own thoughts and actions, both on a personal level and in your relationships with others.  Through self-reflection, creative exploration, and discussion you will make meaningful connections between these current experiences and the earlier experiences in your life.

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How can it help?

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Psychotherapy is known to improve emotional and psychological well-being, bringing about positive changes in the mind and body.  It allows you to express your feelings and find deeper insight and meaning behind your difficult issues.  You may need time and support to process past traumatic experiences while acknowledging the impact they have on you now.  Psychotherapy can help you work through many different problems, including (but not exclusively) disease/illness, abuse, personality disorders, depression, anxiety.

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Creative Psychotherapy

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We have become accustomed to being constantly busy and as a result we will often overthink situations.  We are overstimulated by technology and the pressures put on us by work and home life. 

 

Being creative encourages your mind and body to calm and relax.  This can be accomplished through drawing, artwork, role play, use of resources/props, music, and movement. Working creatively can provide opportunities to learn more about yourself and how your past/present experiences have affected you, as well as consider situations from different perspectives.

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Movement Psychotherapy

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Movement reflects everything about us and can support us in expressing feelings and emotions that we cannot put into words.   We are continually moving through our breath, the way we balance when standing, our use of gestures, the ways in which we respond to stimuli and our habitual patterns.  Just as the mind can influence how we move; our movement can also influence our mind.  By making small changes to the way in which you move you can make gradual shifts in the way you think and feel.