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Psychotherapy 101, An Introduction to Psychotherapy

This article tries to introduce the basic ideas and tenants of psychotherapy. It starts by introducing the idea of the psychotherapist, their training and the profession. It then goes on to introduce the psychotherapeutic relationship and some of its ideas. It ends by introducing probably the most common psychotherapy theories.

The Psychotherapist:

A psychotherapist is someone who provides psychotherapy to clients on a professional basis. This may be to the people, couples, families or in a group setting. A psychotherapist may have other trainings or backgrounds. For example they might also be a physician, social worker, mental health worker, nurse or counsellor. However when seeing a client for psychotherapy they'll only have that role with the client and never be going for any other service.

Psychotherapists will often have experienced an intensive training that is generally between 4-8 years in length. This training may have involved a period of supervised practice in addition to their personal therapy. Many psychotherapists will then be members of a professional organisation like the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).

The Psychotherapeutic Relationship:

The psychotherapist accounts for creating a relationship where psychotherapeutic change can occur. This involves ensuring that the psychotherapy happens in a private, is completely safe environment. They'll offer towards the client a particular degree of confidentiality which ensures that the customer feels confident that they can open to the psychotherapist without their loved ones friends, colleagues, or other professionals being informed by what they are discussing. The psychotherapist will even listen very carefully towards the client and enable them to to recognize their set goals and wishes for that work. It is this active listening and engagement by the psychotherapist that helps create the psychotherapeutic relationship.

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Psychotherapeutic Ideas:

The way that the psychotherapist works with a client will be based upon their training and also the theory they use to help the customer. In general psychotherapy is attempting to help the person live a more satisfying life by helping to: build the persons sense of their own esteem; resolve issues using their past which are affecting them in our; them to have healthier relationships; and to gain perspective and skills to tackle their problems themselves.

Psychotherapeutic Approaches:

The main approaches to psychotherapy are:

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy - It has its roots in psychoanalysis and tries to use the clients unconscious processes to help relieve distress and tension.

Person Centred Psychotherapy - This is in line with the work of Carl Rogers. Here the psychotherapist offers the core conditions of empathy, congruence and unconditional positive regard to assist the client find their own methods to their problems.

Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy - Here the client's thoughts and behaviours are focused on and maladaptive thoughts and behaviours are changed to help the individual move on fro their situation.

Integrative Psychotherapy - Here the psychotherapist mat be trained in a variety of approaches and adjusts the way they will work to match the requirements of the customer.

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