Therapy, can help you to explore who you are and how you feel, in a way which may not be possible with friends, family or partners.

It can help you understand how you became who you are, process supressed emotions and create effective strategies for achieving the life you want. At its best, therapy is life-changing and healing.

The empathic responses of an attuned therapist, can help you become better able to regulate positive and negative feelings, thoughts and emotions because therapy is a reparative relationship.

Therapy can help improve the relationship you have with yourself and therefore, everybody else. It can help you understand and accept your needs compassionately.

Therapy, is the primary treatment for mental health issues and preeminent for helping you achieve lasting change.

However, if you feel you require medication, please consult your GP.

If you believe yourself to be experiencing a mental health crisis, contact 999 as well as First Response to get the help you may need in that moment.

Dealing with addiction, may mean healing the early life experiences, which gave rise to self-destructive coping strategies of avoidance, distraction, numbing and the external-regulation of emotion.

Therapy can help to treat the causes of addiction, and is a positive complement to any work you may be doing, in 12 step fellowship groups, to help you achieve lasting recovery from dependency.

Attachment theory, describes how we relate to ourselves, other people and the world. We develop our attachment style within the first four years of life through the responses of our parents to our emotional and material needs.

Working with the thoughts, emotional responses, behaviours and modes of relating to others which continue to shape our present, from that most early phase of life, can be truly healing.

Therapy can help process grief, offering a healing environment in which to process losses you may still be struggling to accept.

Often, the reason somebody arrived at therapy, is not the reason they remain. The only question really is, what do you need? This may be to look deeply into the past or simply to improve something in the present, whatever it is, therapy may be able to help.