What is Psychotherapy

The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) defines psychotherapy as:

“Psychotherapy is the provision by qualified practitioners of a formal and professional relationship within which patients/clients can profitably explore difficult, and often painful, emotions and experiences. These may include feelings of anxiety, depression, trauma, or perhaps the loss of meaning of ones life. It is a process which seeks to help the person gain an increased capacity for choice, through which the individual becomes more autonomous and self determined. Psychotherapy may be provided for individuals or children, couples, families and groups.”

Psychotherapy involves more in depth work than counselling and may be expected to take longer.

People come to counselling or psychotherapy for a variety of reasons.