Psychotherapy Bury St Edmunds
A question often asked about psychotherapy and counseling is “how does it help?. At Psychotherapy Bury St Edmunds we would say that psychotherapy and counselling aim to enable you to clarify your difficulties and uncover the issues behind them, to gain fresh insights by exploring and evaluating your deepest feelings and beliefs when you feel you are ready. Through this process you become more aware of yourself and how you relate to others, including how you hold yourself back and how you support yourself. Your therapist at Counselling Bury St Edmunds may suggest experimenting with a new approach or way of looking at things, however the decision to follow any suggestion is entirely your own; you are always in control of our session.
As your relationship with your therapist develops here at Bury St Edmunds Psychotherapy, an alliance of openness, honesty and trust is fostered, allowing for deeper and more sensitive issues to be worked with. At Counselling Bury St Edmunds, we see it as the responsibility of the therapist to create the environment in which a collaborative relationship can develop and to work closely with the client at a pace that feels both safe, contained and progressive. It is very often through this relationship of collaboration with their therapist, that the client recognises themselves as the person who has the power to make the changes they want in their life.
When coming for your initial assessment session at Psychotherapy Bury St Edmunds, your therapist will invite you to talk about what is bringing you to therapy at this time and will ask you for some background information. This will give the therapist the opportunity to try to understand the nature of your difficulty, what lies beneath it and what is needed to help resolve the situation. It also gives you the opportunity to see whether you feel comfortable talking to the therapist, ask any professionally based questions you may have about him or the counselling or therapy process and to decide whether you think they are a person you would like to work with.