Why therapy?
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Central to our way of practising counseling and psychotherapy is the idea that human behaviour is meaningful. There is a sense and purpose to what we are doing even though it may distress us and we cannot understand what is happening.
Sometimes events from the past were experienced as too painful and we felt we could not cope unless we denied them. Yet the issues and the emotional difficulties remain, and if not addressed, can re-emerge as a problem.
It is the sense that a problem or a particular pattern of behaviour is going on in your life, which you cannot understand or control, that often motivates someone to seek out a counsellor or a psychotherapist. Here, through the setting of a regular time and space where the therapist and the client can meet, it becomes possible to create a separate and safer environment from the ordinary world outside.
In the therapy, the client can then talk about and express what is meaningful and significant in their life. An important part of this process is the relationship with the therapist. As the client comes to trust the therapist, not only do they find they can talk about and express their feelings, but they also come to experience a 'good' relationship that is both accepting and containing.
What is healing in this process is that what was denied and yet still troubles the person, is expressed, and can then be worked through and understood. But perhaps what is more important is that the process of therapy takes place over time, and allows new meanings and new possibilities to emerge.
