Each person is unique and holds the potential to change.
A person may decide to consider psychotherapy for a variety of different issues and emotional difficulties they want to address, often when confronted by some sense of not being able to move forward, or change.
Significant events such as bereavement and loss, relationship difficulties, questioning who one is or feeling unable to get over past events are common reasons for seeking a psychotherapist. Depression and anxiety are often present and very hard to get over alone. Sometimes the problems can be rooted in past experiences, often from childhood, affecting your life today and the way you view yourself.
Psychotherapy can help with many different life experiences, symptoms or conditions such as:-
• anxiety
• trauma
• loss
• abuse
• post traumatic stress disorder
• depression
• relationship problems
• adoption
• fostering
• bereavement
• identity problems
• attachment disorders
• dissociative conditions
• childhood trauma
• eating disorders
• phobias
• bullying
• sleeplessness
• disability issues
• chronic illness
• self-harm
• self destructive behaviours
• personality disorders
• addictions
• domestic violence
• sexual abuse
• rape
These provide a useful guidance, and it is usual when considering psychotherapy for people to feel unsure and to feel that they might not know exactly what the cause of the problem is or what is causing the emotional pain.