How does Relationship Therapy Work?
Does relationship counselling work? How about individual therapy for anxiety and depression. Associated Counsellors & Psychologists Sydney, a leading service provider, answers your questions about counselling therapy.
A common question asked by clients is: ’Does counselling really work?’ You may be looking for help with your relationship, with anxiety or stress, or maybe low mood or depression. Whatever the cause of your concern, the good news is that clinical counselling is proven to help those with common mental health complaints such as anxiety and depression. Moreover, relationship counselling for marriage or couple issues is also a validated therapy for assisting couples to improve the quality of their relationship.
How does counselling work?
There are a number of types of modalities that counsellors are able to employ to help you. The chosen mode will largely depend on the counsellors training and their assessment of your issue. Treatment for anxiety and depression can include cognitive behavioural therapy. This therapy works considering behaviours and thoughts that currently increase your level of anxiety or depression, and help you to overcome this patterned or habitual response. For example, people who suffer anxiety could be telling themselves things such as: ’I can’t make it’, or ”I will be terribly embarrassed if people see how nervous I am”. Such beliefs are recognised together with your therapist, and new, more accurate self-representations are now employed to challenge these beliefs. With ongoing practice and perhaps some skills training such as relaxation, great results are experienced by most people.
Can relationship counselling help my partnership?
It’s important to realise that relationships are fluid -they go through phases, from the initial honeymoon stage to the many stages of maturing of the relationships. For nearly everyone, as a relationship matures, so do personal demands and responsibility, be it in the form of increased work pressure or children coming along, etc. As these pressures increase, the partners in a relationship are no longer able to accommodate the other’s emotional needs, and conflict can develop - perhaps into frequent and recurring arguments. Relationship counselling helps each partner to learn to calm their own distress, and at the same time learn to identify and bring out into the open any underlying needs that are going unmet. Partners are able to begin to negotiate what they can do for each other and which demands may need to go unmet. A new, more realistic life plan is recognised and can be worked with.
What issues can psychologists help with?
Therapists and psychologists are familiar with assisting with a broad range of issues including anxiety or stress, depression or sadness, marriage and couple issues, grief and bereavement, addictions, anger management, eating disorders and many other complaints of modern living.
How can I choose a counsellor or psychologist?
Get in touch with a registered counsellor or psychologist for a start to a better life. Licenced mental health professionals can help you to overcome emotional challenges. Whatever country you are in you can find assistance from the professional body which registers counsellors or psychologists in your state. In Australia, Associated Counsellors & Psychologists Sydney are able to offer details of a registered therapist near you.
Associated Counsellors & Psychologists Sydney - counselling services including, cognitive behavior therapy, general counselling, psychology and relationship counselling Sydney. Call (02)8205 0566 or visit 418/185 Elizabeth Street, Sydney 2000.