Individual Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy is a very useful way to alleviate symptoms and manage crises. It is also a very effective preventative care measure: Psychotherapy is designed to educate patients about themselves, their reactions to life stressors and effective coping skills. This education reduces the need for future care in that patients develop their own curative skills.

Each psychotherapy session is designed to help patients cope with current stresses that cause anxiety, chronic pain, fatigue, depression and uncomfortable physical symptoms. Psychotherapy can be combined with other techniques such as hypnosis or guided imagery.

If your problems are affecting your relationships, your work, or your feelings about yourself, therapy offers an objective eye, support and strategies for working on the problems.

The following symptoms are grouped together based on some of the most common difficulties that people experience: Depression and Anxiety.

Depression

• Depressed Mood
• Diminished Interest or Pleasure
• Weight Change
• Change in Sleep
• Fatigue/Loss of Energy
• Feelings of Worthlessness
• Difficulty Concentrating/Indecisiveness
• Thoughts of Death

Anxiety

• Pounding or Accelerated Heartbeat
• Sweating
• Trembling or Shaking
• Shortness of Breath/Smothering Sensations
• Choking Feelings
• Chest Pain/Discomfort
• Nausea or Abdominal Distress
• Dizziness, Light-headedness, Faintness
• Feelings of Unreality or Being Detached from Oneself
• Fear of Losing Control or Going 'Crazy'
• Fear of Dying
• Numbness or Tingling Sensations
• Chills or Hot Flushes

If, for whatever reason, you do not feel like your 'normal' self and you cannot identify any specific reasons why, psychotherapy can greatly assist you in this process.

"Keeping secrets private and holding back emotion are psychic misdemeanours for which nature visits us with sickness. But when secrets are told and emotions expressed in communion with others, nature is satisfied."

Carl Jung