What is Contemporary Psychotherapy?
Contemporary psychotherapy grew from the work of leading pioneers in the field, who helped us understand how people can recover from difficulty and live more happily. This approach highlights the importance of people being able to manage their own condition or situation, their potential recovery and development, for now and in the future.
Understanding your world
Contemporary Psychotherapy uncovers and works with the most pressing needs of an individual and the groups they live and work in.
Working with the full life-path
Contemporary Psychotherapy focuses on the cause of a persons challenges, what they need right now and in the future.
Using naturally occurring experiences
Contemporary Psychotherapy uses our range of natural rhythms, which shift and change to help us to relax and pay attention at different levels. This range includes things like the way we focus on a task or when we kind of drift off or daydream. The contemporary psychotherapist is able to help the client intentionally use this natural range to support change. Some types of challenges or problems respond well to using our natural rhythms in a more formal way through hypnotherapy that may be offered as an option if appropriate.
Understanding the needs of the individual
Contemporary Psychotherapy understands that people and their conditions keep moving. The Contemporary Psychotherapist is trained in the practical skills of modeling ways of thinking, communicating and behaving. This means we can understand and respond to people individually respecting their values and strengths.
What happens during psychotherapy?
Working with your Psychotherapist
- Psychotherapy 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. Your psychotherapist will offer a safe, confidential place for you to do this whilst understanding that it is not always easy to talk about problems and to express your feelings.
You can talk about those things that bother you, the way you feel and how this affects you and others, confident that your psychotherapist will accept the way you are without judging you.
There are many different approaches to psychotherapy, which means the possible choice can appear bewildering. However, the key to successful therapy is finding the right therapist for you.
- However good a therapist is, it is the relationship between the two of you that determines whether you trust them enough, and they come to understand you enough, to help you explore and find solutions for your problem.
Some people can feel a little uncertain about the prospect of psychotherapy via phone or online platform. Gordon routinely offers an initial brief no-charge, no-obligation phone or video call for prospective new clients. This gives you an opportunity to experience how it may feel to work via phone or video call. When working with Gordon, he will always ensure that you both have a backup method of contact in case of any break in connectivity.
Developing a therapeutic relationship
- Your psychotherapist will work to create a good therapeutic relationship with you so you can work well together in order to help you come to terms with your life or make the changes you would like to happen.
- Your psychotherapist will work with you towards optimizing your well-being and may also have information and resources to share with you. Depending on the nature of your problem, therapy can be short medium or long term. Sessions can be provided on a one-to-one basis as well as for couples, families and groups whose members share similar problems.
Exploring feelings, beliefs, thoughts & relevant events
- In psychotherapy you will talk about yourself and your life exploring feelings, beliefs, thoughts and relevant events that you are currently experiencing and sometimes, if helpful, those from your childhood and personal history. You do this in a structured way with someone trained to help you do it safely.
- Psychotherapy can help people understand how their thinking relates to the way they feel regarding their problems, difficulties or distress. People can get a better understanding of how they are motivated, enabling them to find more appropriate ways of coping or managing their life and bringing about changes in their thinking and behaviour.
Giving you the space to explore, adapt and change your experience
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