Your therapist and you will build a relationship, where he or she gets to know everything about how you are, emotionally speaking. It gives you, as a client, the space to examine what systems are in place in your life that influence your decisions, life choices and daily interactions. Most people do long term work for about a year), is when you look at why you do what you do. Long term therapy (which could be anything from 6 months to 3 years, or even longer. Adding tools to our kit on how to deal with difficulty makes us stronger and more able to cope.įor some people, short term counselling will lead to an interest in longer term work. These kinds of events can be helped with short term counselling. This might be because of a difficult event (the end of a relationship, for example, or the end of a life stage), or even because of a trauma (assault, for example, or death or the negative impact of the actions of others on how we are able to live our lives). Either online or face to face, deciding to go to counselling can be an intimidating step.įor most people, they decide to go to therapy because something in their lives has stopped working. It will, and your therapist will have had training in how to bring you to your best and safest emotional space. However, that is not to say that online therapy is not real, or won’t get you to a safe emotional place. Even if it is uncomfortable, it means that you can be real, and gain comfort with the idea that someone can see all of you and not reject you. Meeting face to face is the best option, as it means that your therapist can work with not only what you say, but with how you are in the room. However, being comfortable with having a space that is intended for your emotionality to have safe expression, though it can be uncomfortable at first, is an essential part of therapy. This barrier might make work easier initially, as it can feel overwhelming to have a space that is just for you, with all your reality laid bare for a therapist to understand. Just like in life, meeting from behind a screen creates a barrier to emotional contact. Also, for some people, online therapy can feel safer and easier, as an initial step into mental health services.įrom a therapists’ point of view, meeting face to face is preferable. Online counselling is becoming really popular and is a great idea if you can’t get to a therapy centre every week. Do you think you might need to speak to someone about your mental health? Today, we hear from Lorraine Hackett, who is a counsellor with My Mind about what options are available…Ĭounselling (and psychotherapy, which is longer term and more in-depth, but similar to counselling) is a good step if you feel that you are overwhelmed by either life events or if you are feeling not great about yourself.Ĭounselling happens either face to face or online.
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