What is Therapy?
Therapy, or counselling, is a confidential and professional service that assists a person to become more self-aware and emotionally healthy. Counselling involves talking with a person in a way that helps that person solve a problem or helps to create conditions that will cause the person to gain a greater understanding of themselves, their behaviours, their character, their values, and their life circumstances, leading to a more positive and fulfilled life. Individuals, couples and families seek counselling for a range of issues within their personal or work lives. Often counselling is sought out at times of change or crisis; however, counselling can be useful and helpful at any time in our life. Depending on your needs and the psychologist you work with, different styles of counselling and therapy may be used. Commonly used therapies at Vitalise include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Mindfulness, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Psychoeducation, Interpersonal Therapy (IPT), Solution-Focused Therapy, Gestalt Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT). Clients usually find counselling a very liberating and empowering experience. That is not to say they don’t feel nervous when first entering therapy. However, the process and the feeling afterwards, are usually very positive and beneficial.
