Why Psychotherapy?

Psychotherapy offers you an opportunity to explore your inner world and become aware of why you are the person you are today and how exactly your history has shaped you. As Jung said, 'Until you make the unconscious, conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate' (Jung 1951). Psychotherapy facilitates an opportunity to explore our unconscious parts, bringing them to the surface so we can shed the shackles of our history and step into a more whole and integrated person today.

There are a lucky few individuals who only need therapy as a tool to process current life concerns, yet there are many who have learned through their history that they need to work to be loved, they suppress their emotions and struggle today to self-regulate. While therapy can be used as a means of genuine support at a time when your life seems overwhelming and your confidence is low, it can also help you identify when you are sabotaging relationships.

Anyone can benefit from spending some time getting to know themselves more deeply and noticing how they really do feel. If you have become aware of a few cycles of negative behaviour dominating your life or seem to be stuck in the same place again there may be a reason for it. Spending time in a trusting therapeutic setting will give you an opportunity to address your history and start investing in your future and the most important thing in your life – you. We come into this world alone and we die alone. We owe it to ourselves to be comfortable with ourselves.

Integrative Psychotherapy is one of many schools of Psychotherapy. 'Integrative' meaning that it takes aspects of many models of psychotherapy, tailoring the sessions to suit the needs of the individual. The goal of therapy being to integrate rejected aspects of yourself, so that not only do you feel better, but you 'better feel'.

​"Be the Change that you seek" Gandhi