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Understanding what
therapy is like
Most
people have an idea in their mind of what counselling or psychotherapy
is, and they usually get this idea from what they’ve seen on television
or on the movies.
Often they imagine lying on a couch whilst a bearded Austrian man sits
behind them taking notes!
Getting
comfortable
Whilst
this sort of treatment is still practiced – and it’s generally known as
psychoanalysis – it’s a lot different to how you willexperience psychotherapy with me.
With me and many other psychotherapists, we sit more or less facing our clients on comfortable chairs. The more comfortable it is, the better it is. This is the sort
of psychotherapy I practice.
Even
though one person has come looking for help and the other is trying to
help, you and I have a goal in common - we are both trying to
pool our resources to work through your problem. It is this that
marks the difference between contemporary psychotherapy and older forms
of psychotherapy.
Taking
the time to
understand
In
contemporary psychotherapy you can expect that I will
take great pains to understand the difficulties that you are going
through and what you are experiencing. To increase my understanding,
I may ask questions from time to time; you can
respond in any way you want.
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