Psychotherapy aims to improve an individual's well-being and mental health, to resolve or mitigate troublesome behaviors, beliefs, compulsions, thoughts, or emotions, and to improve relationships and social skills. Certain psychotherapies are considered evidence-based for treating some diagnosed mental disorders.
Most forms of psychotherapy use spoken conversation. Some also use various other forms of communication such as the written word, artwork, drama, narrative story or music. Psychotherapy with children and their parents often involves play, dramatization (i.e. role-play), and drawing, with a co-constructed narrative from these non-verbal and displaced modes of interacting.
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There are also different formats for delivering some therapies, as well as the usual face to face: for example via telephone or via online interaction. There have also been developments in computer-assisted therapy, such as virtual reality therapy for behavioral exposure, multimedia programs to each cognitive techniques, and handheld devices for improved monitoring or putting ideas into practice.
Briony Singleton
Our skilled therapists can talk to you one to one either on line using a video link like FaceTime, or Skype; or you can visit our consulting rooms. Either way each session is by pre-arranged appointment and generally after a diagnostic first session, there will be a number of sessions to provide a complete course of care. The cost will quoted in writing, and payment is required in advance of each session, although we may agree to provide an initial assessment for a reduced introductory initial fee.