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.
A common question asked by clients is: ’Does counselling really work?’ You may be considering getting some help for a relationship, with an anxiety problem or stress, or perhaps low mood or depression. Whatever the reasons causing your concern, the good news is that clinical counselling has proven to help people with complaints such as anxiety and depression. And importantly also, relationship counselling for marriage or couple issues is a validated treatment for assisting couples to improve the quality of their relationship.
How does counselling work?
There are several types of treatments that counsellors are able to employ to help you. The therapy they choose will largely depend on a counsellors training and their judgement of your problem. Some of the best validated treatments for anxiety and depression include cognitive behavioural therapy. This treatment works to look at behaviours and thoughts that generally increase your level of anxiety or depression, and help you to overcome this patterned reaction. For instance, people who suffer anxiety could be telling themselves things such as: ”I will never make it”, or ”I will be terribly embarrassed if people see how nervous I am”. Such beliefs are recognised together with your therapist, and different, positive self-representations are used to challenge these beliefs. With ongoing practice and perhaps some skills training such as relaxation, very positive results are experienced by most people.
Can relationship counselling really help my partnership?
Relationships are fluid -they go through phases, from the initial honeymoon stage to the many stages of maturing of the relationships. For many couples, as the 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 a relationship are no longer able to accommodate the other’s emotional needs, and conflict may 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 the unspoken needs that are not being satisfied. Partners 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 psychologists help with?
Therapists and psychologists are trained to assist you with a wide range of issues including anxiety or stress, depression or sadness, couple and marriage issues, grief and bereavement, addictions, anger management, eating disorders and many other complaints of modern living.
How should I choose a counsellor or psychologist?
Get in touch with 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 find assistance from the professional body which registers counsellors or psychologists in your state. In Australia, Associated Counsellors & Psychologists Sydney are able to offer details of a registered therapist near you.
Associated Counsellors & Psychologists Sydney - psychologist services including, cognitive therapy, general counselling, psychology and relationship counselling Sydney. Call (02)8205 0566 or visit 418/185 Elizabeth Street, Sydney 2000.
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