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Psychological Therapy
When: Fridays
Psychological therapy includes the scientific study and application of psychology for the purpose of understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically based distress or dysfunction and to promote subjective well being and personal development. Central to its practice are psychological assessment and therapeutic approaches such as, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), psychodynamic and psychosocial interventions.
Why See a Clinical Psychologist?
Clinical Psychologists are uniquely trained to assess and
understand the emotional problems that people experience. If your confused or
not sure what to make of things, unclear about what to do for the best or feel
that other people cannot understand the trouble you are having then seeing a
Clinical Psychologist will probably be helpful.
When you need help with personal difficulties it is
important that you are able to trust the person that you see. Clinical
psychologists undergo an intense and lengthy training at an undergraduate and post-graduate
level. The training enables clinical psychologists to help people understand
and tackle the problems that they are having.
What to Expect from Psychological Assessment and Therapy
Your first appointment will last 50 minutes. The purpose of this appointment is to establish what the problems are and why they have come about. This will include talking about your current problems, discussing how your life has been to date, as well as specifically exploring how you have coped with difficulties in the past. It is important to establish what support you have at the present time. Although it may be difficult to talk about some aspects of your problems you will get more out of the experience if you can be as open as possible. If subsequent appointments are offered these will usually last 50 minutes.
What About Confidentiality?
All the therapeutic work, which I undertake, remains confidential. You can see your records that I keep simply by asking me. If I write to anyone about your problems it will be with your consent. It is often useful and diplomatic to let your GP know that you are seeing a psychologist.
*In exceptional circumstances if I feel that a person is at serious risk of coming to harm, I have a duty to contact others to prevent this occurring. Please feel free to discuss any issues arising from this when we meet.*