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Psychotherapy and Therapeutic Counselling

Welcome to these web pages devoted to services and help that I  provide.

Psychotherapy is defined as  set of techniques intended to improve emotional or behavioural issues of individuals, groups or families. The issues dealt with are ones which often make it hard for people to manage their lives and achieve their goals. Psychotherapy is aimed at these problems, and  helps people to solve them via a number of different approaches and techniques.

 

Psychotherapy generally differs from counselling in that it seeks to deal with deeper behavioural and emotional problems. Because of this psychotherapy has often required a longer commitment from the client, except that is in the case of brief or strategic therapies.

Brief therapy differs from other schools of therapy in that it emphasises a focus on a specific problem and direct intervention. In brief therapy, the therapist takes responsibility for working more pro-actively with the client in order to treat conditions faster. Rather than the formal analysis of historical causes of distress, brief therapy helps the client to view the present from a wider more functional context and understanding. By becoming aware of this new understanding, clients will undergo spontaneous and generative change.

I use brief therapy techniques which focus on bringing about positive changes in the fastest most effective way possible. Because of the focus on results, rather than the study of the problem itself, brief therapy has a superb  record of dealing with a wide range of issues and problems very quickly. Clients are often amazed that a problem that has been with them for years and years suddenly evaporates, often in as few as two or three sessions.

These pages are structured to give you more information about a range of issues and problems that I  work with.

To discuss making an appointment, click on the Contact Us button at the top of this page.

All consultations are carried out in North Leeds, within a few miles of the A1/M1.