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 people is: ‘Does counselling really work?’ You may be looking for help with a relationship, with an anxiety problem or stress, or perhaps low mood or depression. Whatever the reasons causing concern, the good news is that clinical counselling has proven to clearly help those with common mental health complaints like anxiety and depression. Moreover, relationship counselling for marriage or couple issues is also a helpful treatment for assisting couples to improve the quality of their relationship.
How does counselling work?
There are numerous different modalities that counsellors are able to use to help you. The therapy they choose will depend on a counsellors training and their assessment of your issues. Treatment for anxiety and depression can include cognitive behavioural therapy. This treatment works by looking into behaviours and thoughts that generally increase your level of anxiety or depression, and help you to overcome this habitual response. For instance, those who experience anxiety may tell themselves things such as: ‘I can’t make it’, or ‘I’ll be terribly embarrassed if people see how nervous I am’. Such thoughts are recognised together with your therapist, and new, more accurate self-representations are used to challenge these beliefs. With continued practice and some skills training such as relaxation, great results are experienced by most people.
Can relationship counselling help my marriage?
It’s important to realise that relationships are fluid -they go through phases, from the initial honeymoon stage to the many stages of maturing of the relationships. For most couples, as a relationship matures, so do personal demands and responsibility, whether it’s in the form of increased work pressure or children coming into the family, etc. As these pressures increase, the partners in the relationship are no longer able to accommodate each other’s emotional needs, and conflict may develop – perhaps into frequent and recurring arguments. Relationship counselling enables each partner to learn to calm their own distress, whilst also learning to identify and bring out into the open the underlying needs that are not satisfactory. Partners can learn to 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 therapists help with?
Therapists and psychologists are trained to assist you with a broad range of issues including anxiety or stress, depression or sadness, marriage and couple issues, grief and bereavement, addictions, anger management, eating disorders and many other complaints of modern living.
How can 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 that registers counsellors or psychologists in your state. In Australia, Associated Counsellors & Psychologists Sydney can connect you with a registered therapist near you.
Associated Counsellors & Psychologists Sydney – counselling services including, cognitive therapy, general counselling, psychology and marriage counselling. Call (02)8205 0566 or visit 418/185 Elizabeth Street, Sydney 2000.