Where can therapy help?
Counselling can help you in so many different areas of your life, but some common themes include:
- Repeated unhelpful patterns: Having the same argument or choosing the same sort of partner? Or just being stuck in a cycle of depression or poor life choices.
- Lack of control: Feeling powerlessness, paralised by fear or obsessional thoughts, or a poor work/life balance, or just a feeling of being stuck.
- Being your worst enemy: Making poor choices or procrastinating about change, or self-sabotaging yourself.
- Overcoming irrational fears:Just can't stop the thoughts and fears running round and round in your head.
- Relationship Difficulties: Can't find the right partner, grown apart or struggling to stay together.
- Self-Critical: Feeling negative about yourself, or finding yourself take actions that self-sabotage your best efforts, low confidence.
- Depression: Low mood, habitual sadness, unable to motivate yourself.
- Anger: Unable to contain your angry feelings, or unable able to ever voice your anger.
- Sex: Problems of impotence, lacking in intimacy, suffering from compulsions or addictions, or mismatched desire.
- Trauma: Struggling to comes to terms with a traumatic event in your life, or preoccupied by feelings of guit or shame.
- Anxiety: Stress, tension, agitation, and panic attacks.
- Obsessive Thoughts or Behaviours: Feeling trapped or controlled by thoughts or behaviours that are unwelcome, disturbing or distressing.