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.
It’s commonly asked by clients is: ‘Does counselling really work?’ You could be considering getting some help for a relationship, with an anxiety problem or stress, or maybe low mood or depression. Whatever the cause of your concern, there’s good news: clinical counselling has proven to clearly help people with complaints like anxiety and depression. Moreover, counselling for marriage or couple issues is a validated treatment for helping couples improve their relationship.
Counselling: How does it work?
There are numerous types of treatments that counsellors are able to employ to help you. The therapy they choose will depend on a counsellors training and their judgement of your issue. Treatment for anxiety and depression can include cognitive behavioural therapy. This treatment works by thinking in depth about behaviours and thoughts that generally increase your level of anxiety or depression, and help you to overcome this patterned response. For example, those who experience anxiety may tell themselves things like: ”I will never make it”, or ”I will be terribly embarrassed if people see how nervous I am”. Such beliefs are identified together with your therapist, and different, more accurate self-representations are now employed to challenge these beliefs. With continued practice and some skills training like relaxation, very good results are experienced by most people.
Can relationship counselling really help my partnership?
It’s important to accept that relationships are changeable -they go through phases, from the initial honeymoon stage to the many stages of maturing of the relationships. For most couples, as a relationship matures, so do personal demands and responsibility, be it in the form of increased work pressure or children coming into the family, etc. As these common pressures increase, the partners in the relationship may no longer be able to accommodate the other’s emotional needs, and conflict can develop – often into frequent and recurring arguments. Relationship counselling helps each person to learn to soothe their own distress, and at the same time learn to identify and bring out into the open any underlying needs that are not being met. Partners can learn 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 identified.
What issues can our therapists help with?
Therapists and psychologists are trained to assist you through 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 should I choose a counsellor or psychologist?
Contact a registered counsellor or psychologist for a start to a better life. Licenced mental health professionals can help you to overcome your emotional challenges. Whatever country you are in you can seek assistance from the professional body that registers psychologists or counsellors in your state. In Australia, Associated Counsellors & Psychologists Sydney are able to offer details of a registered therapist near you.
Associated Counsellors & Psychologists Sydney – Sydney counselling services including, cognitive behaviour therapy, general counselling, psychology and marriage counselling. Call (02)8205 0566 or visit 418/185 Elizabeth Street, Sydney 2000.
