What is Psychotherapy

The journey through psychotherapy is unique to every individual and is influenced by your life’s journey and position. Psychotherapy modalities can help to alleviate emotional dysregulation and mental health challenges than can be experienced after trauma or major life events. It’s a modality that embodies talking work, awareness of the self, help you to understand why you feel and behave the way you do and work towards a preferred way of being in the world. A psychotherapist is educated to help individuals become empowered to improve their psychological, emotional and behavioural wellbeing. Effective Psychotherapy can assist the client to understand how past experiences influence their positioning (viewpoint) and responses to their present life process moments and events, working towards the re-authoring of their life’s story and direction.

There is much overlap in psychology, psychotherapy and counselling with psychology using generally Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and its flagship modality and counselling considered generally a short-term process, solution focused and brief, dealing with practical and immediate outcomes. Notwithstanding that sessions can be brief with both psychotherapy and psychology also.

Psychotherapy is regulated with stringent registration criteria by PACFA (Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia, and psychology is regulated by AHPRA (Australian Health Practitioner Registration Agency).