What is therapy?
Therapy is a safer space to be yourself and be heard and accepted just as you are. It’s a space for nurturing yourself, developing understanding and sparking creativity. Therapy doesn’t have to be a space you only come to at a point of crisis, it is also a valuable space (away from the noise of external advice and opinions) to develop new ways of understanding yourself and explore more satisfying ways of living that feel right for you.
In therapy, together, we can look at where you’ve been, where you are right now, and where you hope to move forwards to. Therapy gives you a space to get back in touch with yourself and find your voice. Deeply-held assumptions about yourself (and the world) can be gently questioned, challenging emotions are released, explored and shared - many people find it a relief to finally share these things with their therapist. As well as a space to meet the parts of ourselves that might be hurting, overwhelmed or anxious, therapy can also be a space to reconnect with joy, passion and humour.
Quite often, therapy leads to new insights about yourself. These can become the first steps towards making the changes in life that you’re looking for.