The Benefits of Psychotherapy
Gordon works with people, experiencing some of the most extreme circumstances life can bring and gets straight to the heart of the challenges people experience in the many contexts of their lives.
The key to successful therapy is finding the right therapist for you so that you can build a relationship between the two of you based on trust and understanding. Gordon’s relaxed, practical approach makes this easier ensuring you can feel safe to explore, adapt and, where appropriate, change your experience of even the most difficult circumstances in life. He responds to you as an individual, respecting your values and strengths, working towards optimizing your well-being and life experience.
Psychotherapy with Gordon offers a place, time and opportunity to think and talk about yourself and your concerns in a way that you often can’t do with family and friends. You can talk about those things that bother you, the way you feel and how this affects you and others, confident that he will accept the way you are without judging you.
Gordon will help you understand how your thinking relates to the way you feel about your problems, difficulties or distress. This will help you understand how you are motivated, find more appropriate ways of coping or managing your life and bringing about changes in your thinking and behaviour.
His approach highlights the importance of you managing your own condition or situation, potential recovery and development, for now and in the manageable future. This encourages an independent and empowered approach to living your life. When it’s helpful to this process, Gordon will also share ideas, strategies and resources from the Contemporary approach with you to enhance your understanding or support change.
Psychotherapy can help with:
Stress
Coping with stress or having difficulty recovering from stressful situations
Depression
Coping with depression or other feelings of sadness, grief or emptiness.
Bereavement & Loss
Difficulties in coming to terms with losses such as bereavement, divorce or loss of employment, sadness, grief or emptiness.
Obsessive behavior
This includes habits you want to break but feel you can’t.
Anxiety & Panic
Feeling anxious, unable to cope or concentrate, as well as suffering from panic attacks.
Confidence
Being troubled by a lack of confidence or excessive shyness.
Extreme Moods
Extreme mood swings or overwhelming emotions such as anger, fear and guilt.
Effect of abuse
Difficulties coping with the effects of any type of abuse.
Relationship Issues
Relationship difficulties or repeatedly becoming involved in unsatisfying or destructive relationships.
Personal issues
Self-harm, addiction, sexual problems, phobia, difficult relationships with food or the effects of trauma.
Giving you the space to explore, adapt and change your experience
Ready to talk?
If you are ready to talk about talking then please get in touch. There’s no obligation just opportunity.