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Psychotherapy
Miriam Handren
What is Psychotherapy?
Psychotherapy, like counselling is one of the ’talking therapies’. It provides an opportunity to talk in confidence at a regular time, in a private setting.
It provides a professional relationship within which difficult and often painful emotions, dilemmas and experiences can be usefully explored. It aims to increase self knowledge and the capacity for choice.
Integrative therapy, which I practice, is based on the philosophy that we all have a capacity for growth, for finding our own voice. It is also concerned with how our emotional development as children is influencing us in the present.
Understanding how we are repeating patterns which are no longer serving us well, can free us to feel less driven or hopeless and more in control of our lives. As a psychotherapist I aim to provide a secure atmosphere which facilitates this kind of personal exploration.
Can Psychotherapy Help?
At its simplest, i can help to “get things off your chest” to someone who is not involved in your life.
It can help to air one’s confusions and dilemmas; to think things through. It can help to get more in touch with how we really feel. It can help to make sense of ones reactions and emotions and to come to terms with both current and past experience.
At its most profound psychotherapy can help us understand ourselves and our relationships. Over time our attitudes and perspective can change and this can have far reaching implications for our way of being in the world.
Many different kinds of people seek psychotherapy for many different reason from a current crisis, to pervasive feelings of unhappiness or lack of meaning. They are often baffled by why they feel or act the way they do. What they share is the courage to face their difficulties.
Cost:
Weekly 50 minute session – £25
About Miriam
Miriam has over 10 years experience in this field, as a counsellor in the voluntary sector (Penarth Pastoral Foundation and CRUSE) and as a psychotherapist in private practice (from 2003). She has also done voluntary work in the NHS (2004 – 2006).
To book please call on 01446 760159