Why Therapy?
This is Freud’s Couch
This is where it all started, but it’s good to know that things have changed a lot since this couch was used. As much as Freud had to offer, therapy has come a long way in the last century. Freud used to treat people for hysteria, melancholia, neurasthenia, phobias, and obsessions. Today, you hardly hear of any of these things, and all sorts of people come to therapy for different reasons.
Problems of everyday life:
Today, people come to therapy for their regular everyday problems, as much as they do for more serious ones. In fact, you could say that what we call serious mental illness is just a more severe version of what you experience in everyday life. Some of these things are:
+ Anxiety
+ Depression
+ Feeling stuck
+ Relationship difficulties
+ Life changes
+ Discomfort in career progression
+ Desire for change accompanied with fear of change
+ Self destructive behaviours
+ That feeling that you can’t identify but know it needs attention
+ Issues with sex and sexuality
Psychotherapy is a great tool to deal with these things, and I have experience working with each of them. Most of these problems require once weekly psychotherapy. How long that will take is something that we discuss at our first meeting; though it will of course be open to re-visit this as we go along. Most of my clients prefer a psychotherapy that lasts a minimum of six months, which is a good start to handle more deeply set issues. I do, though, work with clients who prefer to stay for a shorter period of time too. Again, this is something we discuss right from the start. If you’re interested in setting up an initial appointment, check my availability.
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N1 Psychotherapy
Aaron Balick
