Can Psychotherapy Help Me?

Psychotherapy has helped many people deal with mental or emotional distress, which can be experienced in many ways, including:

• Anxiety or an inability to cope or concentrate
• Inability to deal with stress or recover from stressful situations
• Lack of confidence or excessive shyness
• Feelings of depression, sadness, grief or emptiness
• Extreme mood swings
• Difficulty making or sustaining relationships, or repeatedly becoming involved in unsatisfying or destructive relationships
• Sexual problems
• Impact of abuse
• Difficulty in coming to terms with losses such as bereavement, divorce or loss of employment
• Feelings of anger and fears of losing control
• Identity issues
• Experiencing racism.
• Impact of suffering bullying or prejudice
• Eating disorders
• Personality disorders
• Self harm
• Obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviour
• Panic attacks and phobia
• Addiction

Relationship with your therapist

Whether psychotherapy can help YOU will depend largely upon the quality of the relationship between you and your therapist.