What are the aims of counselling / psychotherapy, from a therapist's point o!
Question: If only there was one easy sentence to sum it up.
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One key aim of counselling is to assist people in managing any transitions in their life. Another aim is to help a person to talk about emotions and thoughts that they may not have been able to express before, or address important matters they have put off, which always seem to return. New perspectives may emerge. Therapy also helps enable people to manage difficult feelings, without avoiding them or acting them out. This can bring a sense of relief, so we can understand our current situation. Counselling is also about freeing ourselves, moving away from what we don't want, towards what we do want. It may include supporting people to gain and maintain pleasure in life, despite the difficulties life brings.
Some problems may have started off small and have begun to snowball. The therapy can include exploring the dynamics of your own personality and maintaining cycles - how you re-create situations; looking at what
Answers: If only there was one easy sentence to sum it up.
Let me give you my website version, which I hope responds to your question.
Best Wishes,
Glen Gibson
http://www.glengibson.co.uk
One key aim of counselling is to assist people in managing any transitions in their life. Another aim is to help a person to talk about emotions and thoughts that they may not have been able to express before, or address important matters they have put off, which always seem to return. New perspectives may emerge. Therapy also helps enable people to manage difficult feelings, without avoiding them or acting them out. This can bring a sense of relief, so we can understand our current situation. Counselling is also about freeing ourselves, moving away from what we don't want, towards what we do want. It may include supporting people to gain and maintain pleasure in life, despite the difficulties life brings.
Some problems may have started off small and have begun to snowball. The therapy can include exploring the dynamics of your own personality and maintaining cycles - how you re-create situations; looking at what