About counselling or psychotherapy — Christopher Pollock
What's it for?
These are some of the questions that bring people like you into counselling or psychotherapy (for simplicity here, I'll just call these together 'therapy'):
- Are you struggling to make sense of things?
- Do you suffer from anxiety?
- Are you feeling low or depressed?
- Does your behaviour distress or confuse you?
- Do you find it difficult to manage your relationships with other people?
- Are you trying to cope with a loss of someone or something? (Bereavement)
- Are you uncertain about who is the real you?
For couples, therapy offers a chance to explore the relationship between you, and for both to gain a new perspective.
Sometimes it helps to talk to somebody from outside your circle of family and friends.
What happens in therapy?
Therapy provides an opportunity to talk about things that you don't often manage to talk about in everyday life. The regular sessions can let you look at thoughts and feelings in a different light, listen to what's going on for you, or practise doing things in a different way.
As a therapist, I don't usually give advice. Instead, we work together to find out what you want to change.
Everybody is different, so each experience will be unique; and we all have things in common. For many people, a major experience of therapy is relief at being listened to without judgement. In sessions with me there is a safe space to explore issues that can seem overwhelming when you hold them to yourself.
It can be hard work, sometimes scary, and there are also no guarantees. Yet it can lead to big changes. The first step is to make contact with me.
Text and images © 2006 - 2009 Christopher Pollock