How does Relationship Therapy Work?
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.
One of the most common questions asked by clients is: ”Does counselling really work?” Like our clients, you may be considering getting some help with your relationship, with anxiety or stress, or maybe low mood or depression. Whatever the reasons causing your concern, there’s good news: clinical counselling has proven to help people with complaints such as anxiety and depression. Moreover, relationship counselling for marriage or couple issues is a helpful treatment for helping couples improve the quality of their relationship.
Counselling: How does it work?
There are numerous different treatments that counsellors are able to use to help you. The therapy they choose will largely depend on the counsellors training and their judgement of your issues. Some of the best validated treatments for anxiety and depression include cognitive behavioural therapy. This treatment works by thinking in depth about behaviours and thoughts that currently increase your level of anxiety or depression, and help you to overcome this patterned response. For instance, those who suffer anxiety could be telling 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 different, more accurate self-representations are now used to challenge these beliefs. With ongoing practice and some skills training like relaxation, very good results are experienced by most people.
Can relationship counselling really help my partnership?
Relationships are fluid -they go through phases, from the initial honeymoon stage to the many stages of maturing of the relationships. For nearly everyone, as a relationship matures, so do lifestyle demands and responsibility, whether it’s in the form of increased work pressure or children coming along, etc. As these common pressures increase, the partners in the relationship may no longer be able to accommodate the other’s emotional needs, and conflict can develop - perhaps into frequent and recurring arguments. Relationship counselling enables each partner to learn to calm their own distress, and at the same time learn to identify and name any unspoken needs that are going unmet. 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 therapists help with?
Therapists and psychologists are familiar with helping with a wide 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 do 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 are able to help you to overcome your emotional challenges. Whatever country you are in you can find assistance from the professional body that registers psychologists or counsellors 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.
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