Counselling aims to support you in working through difficulties that you are experiencing. Whether you choose online or face to face, the aim is to create a safe space where you feel able to reflect openly.
PCT is a counselling approach which places great emphasis on the provision of certain therapeutic conditions including: unconditional positive regard, empathy and congruence (genuineness). This provides individuals with the opportunity to develop a sense of self and find their true positive potential. The therapist uses a non-directive approach to assist the individual in finding their own solutions to their problems.
Couples Counselling for Depression
Kirsten is gaining accreditation with the Tavistock who developed this therapy to improve recovery rates where a couple’s relationship plays a role in the depression. It might be that the relationship in some way contributes to the depression or that it has the potential to aid recovery. Over the twenty sessions, the therapy aims to reduce unhelpful interactions, builds emotional openness and connection, improves communication and behaviour, changes unhelpful cognitions and perceptions and helps the couple to find new ways of managing stresses.
Psychodynamic therapy values an exploration of an individual’s past which can help to make sense of how an individual feels and highlight unhelpful patterns of behaviour that might be being repeated. These processes can be largely unconscious and through developing insight, the individual is able to make changes.
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