Counselling & Psychotherapy

Counselling and psychotherapy can help anyone experiencing personal difficulties, who wishes to develop understanding and insight and to make changes in their lives. The issues that bring people to psychotherapy and counselling are varied and may result from the daily stress of living, or as a result of specific life events - past or present.

Counselling is generally shorter-term work, which focuses more on specific issues and events. The therapist works to help you to explore and understand your situation and will support you to make the changes in your life that you want to achieve.

Psychotherapy involves more in-depth work than counselling, generally, takes longer. It explores more fully underlying aspects of ourselves; patterns in the way we relate to ourselves and others; and the links between past events in a persons life and their present experience.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is designed to help solve problems in people's lives, such as anxiety, depression, or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) . It is normaly short term (6-12 sessions) and inolves helping people to understand their problems and develop practical strategies to overcome them.