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Counseling
Psychotherapy/counseling youth and adult
Psychotherapy is sometimes referred to as a 'talking treatment'. It helps the person to understand and accept their strengths and weaknesses, as well as what makes them feel positive or anxious. Identifying feelings and ways of thinking helps the person to cope with situations they find difficult, and new ways of approaching them. Alex offers one on one therapy as well as group therapy. .
The root of our internal conflict is often so personal-so delicate-so complicated that we often cant see things clearly enough in our heads to unravel our thoughts, memories and feeling, its almost like…. we’re to close too it.
Too close for comfort. Too close to see the real picture
We need someone….
Someone who is trained…someone who can give us an objective point of view-someone who can gently guide us and ask the right questions in order to help us make sense of it all.
After all we go to school to learn how to write a sentence, multiply and identify parts of the body…
But we are not taught how to deal with our thoughts and feelings!
Family
Alex helps family members find constructive ways to help each other. They work in ways that acknowledge the contexts of people's families and other relationships, sharing and respecting individuals' different perspectives, beliefs, views and stories, and exploring possible ways forward.
Alex thus not only supports change with individuals but also in their relationships in the family and beyond, so children, young people, adults and/or those important to them are supported in continued recovery.
Alex offers family therapy in areas such as:
- Family relationships and changes in family life
- Child and adolescent mental health
- Adult mental health
- Parenting issues
- Couple relationships
- Supporting family members through separation, mediation and divorce
- Child and adolescent behaviour, including problems with attention and over-activity
- Emotional disorders including anxiety and depression
- Anorexia, bulimia and other eating disorders
- Supporting family members in step-family life
- Domestic violence
- Self-harm
- Drug and alcohol misuse
Group workshops
In group therapy the interactions between the members of the group and Alex become the material with which the therapy is conducted, alongside past experiences and experiences outside the therapeutic group. Problems which the client experiences in daily life will also show up in his or her interactions in the group. Nevertheless, this allows such problems to be worked through in a therapeutic setting, generating experiences which may be translated to "real life." Group therapy is not based on a single psychotherapeutic theory, but takes from many what works.
Some of the many benefits of group therapy:
- Exploring issues in a social context more accurately reflects real life.
- Group therapy provides an opportunity to observe and reflect on your own and others' social skills.
- Group therapy provides an opportunity to benefit both through active participation and through observation.
- Group therapy offers an opportunity to give and get immediate feedback about concerns, issues and problems affecting one's life.
- Group therapy members benefit by working through personal issues in a supportive, confidential environment and by helping others to work through theirs.
- Higher self esteem, confidence,motivation and success.
More infomation-Youth and Family Therapy
Call Alex 0402 483714
Group Therapy is a form of psychotherapy during which Alex has a small group of clients together as a group. Group therapy often consists of "talk" therapy, but may also include other therapeutic forms than such as expressive therapy, psychodrama and movement therapy.
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