Adult

Individual adult psychotherapy is a talking and listening therapy.

You are invited to say whatever is on your mind. I will listen and respond to you as thoughtfully, carefully and respectfully as I can with a view to listening carefully for underlying meaning.

Who is psychotherapy for?

Psychotherapy can be very helpful for any person who is seeking to make meaning of their life. In particular people seek out psychotherapy because they have a sense that their life is not going as well as they would like. Difficulties may be extremely large and debilitating to a person’s functioning or they may be troublesome in a way that is unsatisfactory.

How I work in adult psychotherapy

For the first several sessions, which psychotherapists refer to as the ‘assessment phase’ I will invite you to speak about yourself, your life, whatever is important to you, whatever has brought you to seek psychotherapy.

The relationship between psychotherapist and client is most important as it is through this relationship that the psychotherapy work unfolds. During the assessment phase we will discover whether we can work together. It’s important to have a good working fit between us. If we conclude that the working relationship fit feels right we then make arrangements to start therapy.

We may meet weekly, fortnightly, or more or less. We may meet for weeks, or months or sometimes years, depending on what has brought you to therapy.

In our psychotherapy sessions, I will aim to provide a reliable, safe space. I will invite and encourage you to feel you can say whatever is on your mind, whatever it is you wish to speak about. I will listen to you attentively and carefully. Together we will seek to understand and make meaning of your communications.

Overtime you will come to understand patterns of behaviour and feeling that may have been hidden from you, which you have struggled to understand and which have contributed to your difficulties.

One aim of psychotherapy is for you to be able to live your life more freely and more joyfully.

These are some but certainly not all difficulties which bring people to psychotherapy and for which psychotherapy can be helpful.

Sadness
Feelings of emptiness
Loneliness
Conflict
Identity questions
Life direction questions
Difficulties forming relationships
Difficulties with relationships
Family difficulties
Work difficulties
Anxieties
Stress
Depression
Trauma