ProTherapy | Psychotherapy, Training and Occupational Health in Chester, North Wales and the North West

Individuals and Couples

Psychotherapy helps clients to identify feelings and ways of thinking that enable them to gain understanding and insight into their difficulties. Our approach is an interpersonal, relational process to aid you in your problems of living.

Sessional work may be on an individual basis, or together with your spouse or partner, if you are experiencing relational difficulties.

Many of us experience difficulties in our relationships at some time or other in our lives. If communication has broken down or you would like a chance to talk and listen in a structured setting, couples counselling provides a safe and supportive environment away from daily life to talk, listen, express feelings and reflect to better understand how you feel and how you interact in your relationship. If you are having difficulty coping with sexual problems, you may find our service of benefit.

Examples of ProTherapy working with individuals and couples include:

• Increasing personal awareness to instigate change
• Unlocking psychological resources and abilities
• Restoring connection in your relationships

The agreed sessions are normally for 50 minutes duration and take place on a weekly or fortnightly basis.

Corporate

ProTherapy offers a well-structured psychotherapeutic support programme for individual employees within an organisation. Continuing good mental health and well-being of any employee is important to achieve business objectives; unfortunately, 1 in 5 of the population can experience mental health problems at some time in their working lives.

The therapist works together with the employee to identify and understand problems in terms of the relationship between thoughts, feelings and behaviour. This leads to the identification of time-limited therapy goals and strategies, which are continually monitored and evaluated. A major feature of good mental health utilises the concept of personal responsibility within the employee's sphere of influence.

Examples of ProTherapy working with the employee include:

• Enhancing professional and personal relationships
• Dismantling barriers to effective decision making
• Conflict management
• Improving performance

Our main focus of psychotherapeutic support is to enable the client to generate solutions to problems that are more helpful than their present ways of coping.

At ProTherapy we offer a range of therapeutic approaches, which include solution focused, cognitive behavioural, interpersonal and EMDR.

Solution Focused brief therapy is an approach to psychotherapy that is brief and effective. Research shows it to bring about lasting change on average in less than 5 sessions and in up to 83% of referrals. It can be brief because it is future-focused and because it works with the strengths of the individual making the best use of their resources. It can bring about lasting change precisely because it aims to build solutions rather than solve problems.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is a psychological approach which is based on scientific principles and which research has shown to be effective for a wide range of problems. Client and therapist work together to identify and understand problems in terms of their relationship between thoughts, feelings and behaviour. The approach usually focuses on difficulties in the here and now, and relies on the therapist and client developing a shared view of the individual's problem. This then leads to the identification of goals and strategies designed to overcome the problem.

Interpersonal Psychotherapy is a brief and highly structured approach that addresses interpersonal issues in depression. It is modest in its use of psychotherapy jargon and promotes attention to the relationship based issues which are central to the experience of many depressed individuals. It attends to difficulties arising in the daily experience of maintaining relationships and resolving difficulties while suffering an episode of major depression. The fundamental clinical task of interpersonal therapy is to help individuals to learn to link mood with interpersonal contacts, and to recognise that by appropriately addressing interpersonal situations they may simultaneously improve both their relationships and depressive state.

EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitisation & Reprocessing. It is an evidence based therapeutic procedure and has been mainly used in the treatment of Post Traumatic Stress. However, it now being increasingly used to treat e.g. grief, phobias, anxiety and panic disorders. It is believed that the eye movements induced in EMDR mirror the natural eye movement process that occurs in REM (rapid eye movement) phase of sleep during which information is processed naturally.

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