Psychotherapy
What is Psychotherapy?
A partnership between individuals (clients) and a professional that helps them understand and modulate their feelings and assists them to change behaviour patterns. Psychotherapy is sought by clients who want to work on long standing problems and/or unresolved past conflicts that affect current functioning.
People often consider psychotherapy under the following circumstances
- they feel an overwhelming and prolonged sense of sadness and helplessness, and they lack hope in their lives
- their emotional difficulties make it hard for them to function from day to day, for example, they are unable to concentrate on their job and performance suffers as result
- their actions are harmful to themselves or to others, for instance, they drink excessively and/or become aggressive
People seek psychotherapy when they are suffering from anxiety disorders or depression. Nearly 25% of the adult population in North America suffers at some point from anxiety or depression.