What is Psychotherapy?
“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise” – Sigmund Freud
“The significant problems we face today cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them” — Albert Einstein
Many people experience emotional difficulties that cause distress both to themselves and to those around them. Psychotherapy is a clinical treatment that helps to make sense of patterns of behaviour, thoughts and emotions that cause the distress. Psychotherapy does not put anything into you, but helps you to become more self-aware and conscious and more able to understand yourself and the things you do.
Psychotherapy is a process of talking but it is also more than that. Because many of our behaviours, thoughts and emotions are out of our awareness, and therefore not accessible to our normal “rational” minds, the therapeutic relationship formed between therapist and client enables new understandings to take place. The therapist will be able to initiate conversations that relate to these out-of-awareness areas, and both therapist and client enter into an exploration or an inquiry into the client’s psychic world, as it is at this present time and re-visits the past when something there is hindering the growth. Successful therapeutic process leads to the client experiencing the freedom to be able to lead their lives to the full.
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NB. Some people’s ailments have a hereditary/biological component and might require medication in conjunction with psychotherapy.
When would you benefit from seeing a therapist?
When you are:
- Depressed
- Anxious
- In a crisis
- Feeling that life is not worth living
- Are having difficulties in your relationship(s), including sex and sexuality issues
- Have experienced/are experiencing loss or separation
- Grieving
- Have experienced/are experiencing trauma (emotional, sexual, physical)
- Having difficulties in changing old patterns of behaviour
- Feel that you lack self-esteem
- In a transition in your life
- Feeling empty
- Not sure who you are
- When ‘everything is fine’ but you feel that your life has no meaning
- When you are curious to understand more about yourself
Duration of therapy
Short or long-term therapy, depending on need. Psychotherapy usually takes time, from months to years.
When you are ready to finish your psychotherapy or analysis:
- When you have re-discovered your own beauty
- When you can feel yourself open(ed)
- When you can be very sad without feeling mad
- When you can be full of joy
- When you are able to stop thinking and just be
- When your consciousness is full of space, not cluttered with things
- When you live in grace and can feel gratitude
- When you are ready to forgive
- When you are able to work and love and have a couple of friends
- When you have better things to do with your time and money
- When you feel that it is enough for now
- When you are open to the implicit knowing in yourself
- When you can fully live your life (in spite of all of your theoretical knowing of life) - Morpheus to Neo in The Matrix: ‘There are two different things; to know The Path and to walk the Path’.
- When you know God/Ultimate Reality inside yourself
- When life in general and your own life in particular has become a love story
- When you are okay with not knowing or understanding everything, (negative capability)
- When you do not any more get stuck in your hatred and enviousness
- When you are happy to go
- When you can be, at least at times, fully present, in the here and NOW
- When you feel free and yet willingly responsible
- When you know that everything is alive and is connected to everything else
- When you know that the essence of you is immortal
- When you see the beauty, in yourself and in others
- When you can keep yourself flowing, (not being stuck most of the time)
- When life has become deeply meaningful and mysterious
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