Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy is a process for treating mental and emotional disorders by talking about the client’s condition and related issues with a trained mental health provider. It is also known as talk therapy, counselling, psychosocial therapy or, simply, therapy.
The therapeutic interaction is a co-creative relationship of mutual trust with the goal of helping individuals change destructive or unhealthy behaviours, thoughts, and emotions. The client feels free to explore deeply their feelings, moods, and thoughts, and through this gains insights and knowledge. In this way, perceptions of self and of the situation are changed and new possibilities can be realised.
The therapist will draw on many approaches and techniques to match what is right for the client and to build the client’s skills for coping, mental well being and healing. The problems the client brings to therapy are understood to be symptoms of deeper underlying problems, which have to be uncovered. The length of treatment may be completed briefly or over a longer term, depending on the problem being addressed.
At IMI, the psychotherapeutic approach draws on and integrates various psychotherapies including: non-directive psychotherapy, cognitive behavioural therapy, dialectical behaviour therapy, solution focused therapy, primal therapy. Gestalt, TA, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), psychosynthesis, transpersonal psychotherapy, relaxation techniques.
Examples of common conditions treated with psychotherapy include:
- Addictions,
- Anxiety
- Binge drinking
- Depression (bipolar and post-partum depression),
- Eating disorders
- Panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Stress
Catriona Rogers is experienced in a wide variety of the above psychotherapeutic techniques and combines and integrates approaches in a way to best serve her clients needs.
