What is Psychotherapy?

Anyone can benefit from psychotherapy. Trained professionals can help you to explore and understand your difficulties and concerns, through exploration of your thoughts and feelings to help improve your mental health.

You may feel unsure if what you’re experiencing is serious enough to get the help you need, or unsure what support psychotherapy can provide. Anyone can benefit from psychotherapy to help them understand how they see the world and why.

Psychotherapy can also be called ‘talking therapies’. It involves talking about an emotional difficulty with a trained therapist. That might be anything from trauma, grief, anxiety, relationship difficulties to addiction.

At DeVernon Psychotherapy, we are trained to help you express your thoughts and feelings and explore what comes up when you do, listening, empathic, and non-judgmental, providing space so you feel heard and understood.

It is important that you are able to talk about your problems in a safe and non-judgmental way for you to feel heard and understood. By choosing the right therapist you will be able to identify better ways to cope with your problems to improve your emotional well-being and mental health.

Finding the right therapist will help you develop trust in the therapy process, help with developing a strong therapeutic relationship that is important when opening up about personal and intimate details of your life, which may be daunting, and work collaboratively to overcome challenges that may occur when working on difficult and painful past events that are affecting your present life. Therapy is not always easy – but you will find that it can be a life-changing experience. Most importantly, your therapist will be walking the journey to recovery with you.