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Why do
people come to psychotherapy?
People come to psychotherapy for a wide variety of reasons. Some of
these include:
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Anxiety and stress
- Depression
- Panic attacks
- Relationship issues
- Work issues
- Unresolved things from the past
Other people come
because they just want to get some things off their chest. In other
cases, you may not even be sure of what it is; only through
talking to someone do they find out what you want to work on.
All sorts of people
come to psychotherapy with me – people just like you and me. In many cases
their lives work quite well but sometimes there are some aspects that
just aren’t working. Psychotherapy is about getting these parts working
too.
How long
does it take?
This depends very much
on you, what you want to deal with and the depth to which you want
to explore it. It really is impossible to say. Some people come for a
fairly short time, deal with what they came for and leave satisfied.
Others
initially come for a short time and end up staying for a longer time if they find
they keep finding psychotherapy relevant and useful for them. A typical
arrangement would be open-ended; the psychotherapy is available for as
long as you wants it, and ends when you want it to end.
However, it is important to understand that it is very difficult to achieve any lasting improvement if you only come for one or two sessions. It takes us a while to develop a pattern we don't like in ourselves; it will almost always take a while to change it.
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