Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy is particularly useful where the therapist and client identify a pattern of thinking and/or behaving that has been persistent in the client’s life and is causing recurring issues or difficulties in the person’s emotional or behavioural world.

Psychotherapy is more suited to longer term work, in that it examines how these thinking styles and behaviours developed and explores effective ways of adapting or changing these patterns in order to gain more positive control in the person’s life.

There are often areas of overlap between counselling and psychotherapy and there are no definitive rules as to when either should be deployed except for possibly the duration of counselling.