The first Talk Therapy counselling session is just an exploratory, to allow you to get a feel for the work we do. It is just as an assessment on both sides, to see if we are able to work together. Longer first sessions (One and a half hours) are available, to help you to resolve some issues faster and with more clarity, and for us to help you more...
If you want even faster results then perhaps Clinical or Analytical Hypnotherapy, NLP, EFT, EMDR, is what you may need. Click on the side bar for the page and more information.
The counselling practitioners of Talk Therapy will usually offer you two simple sessions (limited help) for emergency advice. However, it may be more helpful to you, if we offer you a basic six/ten week course of discovery; to assess what your needs are really all about.
We will utilise a simple talking therapy, or if you need something different, or more specialised and you are willing, we may introduce you to an 'Arts' style of therapy, or some other way for us to access the unconscious mind speedily, especially if you need some quick answers.
Our normal Talk Therapy Counselling Practice usually starts on a short term and we review it at regular stages together and it could even last up to 18 months or more, if required.
The lines between Counselling and Psychotherapy are somewhat blurred these days, mainly due to many educational facilities not distinguishing them correctly (for various reasons - possibly financial) and in the author's view, not always for righteous ones.
It appears that instead of Counselling remaining at the entry level of higher education, or supportive client levels of basic counselling, where it was initially, and still is, seen to be extremely usefull, suddenly in later years it has been confused with deeper Psychological levels of therapy.
It may not be realised that Counselling is definately not Psychotherapy and it is important to know that a Psychotherapists has had to be in personal therapy and supervision and also had to study for many years, precisely for that distintion to be apparent.
Therefore we ought to identify the difference, so that the general public and for the professions referring patients, would understand more of the specialised nature of the psychotherapeutic training one has to undergo. It is also relevant to add, the costs involved in completing the training are enormous, by comparrison to simple counselling skills.
It is relativley easy for someone to do a short course in Counselling and call themselves a Counsellor, though to call oneself a Psychotherapist, within UKCP and BACP guidelines, the student will have usually undergone at least three to five years training, at Post Graduate Degree level. And as a rough guide Psychotherapy usually does not happen, until some time has elapsed and some preparatory work has been done, with a patient and progress being made.
A Psychotherapeutic Counsellor acts like any counsellor initially, as there is a need for information gathering from the client, along with reflective and active listening, to establish trust and relationship between patient and therapist.
It is possible for the psychotherapeutic counsellor to access and see issues and reasons behind acting out, or the presenting problems, that ordinary counsellors are unable to see, due to their lack of training and understanding at the deeper psychological level.
It has to be said that some patients may in extreme cases, need to continue forseveral years. This is particularly relevant for those who are very deeply disturbed and therefore traumatised in the present.
At Talk Therapy we work in an Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapeutic style. We will only move forward when the client feels ready to move on.
All Talk Therapy counsellors and therapists are under Supervision at all times and are fully insured for this work.
At Talk Therapy we feel It is very important to work at the client's pace to enable growth, and clients do this by dealing with their' issues and taking responsibility for their own' life. We care enough to be there, for however long it takes.