WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF PSYCHOTHERAPY?
Participating in psychotherapy offers a number of benefits for the client. It is usually helpful to have somebody who really does understand you. Therapy may give the client a fresh perspective on a difficult problem and direct the client towards a solution. Most patients will say that the benefits of psychotherapy include:
Participating in psychotherapy offers a number of benefits for the client. It is usually helpful to have somebody who really does understand you. Therapy may give the client a fresh perspective on a difficult problem and direct the client towards a solution. Most patients will say that the benefits of psychotherapy include:
- Being able to understand yourself and your personal goals and values better.
- Developing skills for improving relationships.
- It helps the client overcome certain problems, such as an eating disorder, depression, or anxiety.
- Obtaining a solution to the problems or concerns that made the client seek therapy.
WHAT IS PSYCHOTHERAPY?
Psychotherapy, or personal counseling with a psychotherapist, is an intentional inter-personal relationship used by trained psychotherapists to aid a client or patient in problems of living.
It aims to increase the individual's sense of well-being. Psychotherapists employ a range of techniques based on experiential relationship building, dialogue, communication and behavior change that are designed to improve the mental health of a client or patient, or to improve group relationships (such as in a family).
Psychotherapy may also be performed by practitioners with a number of different qualifications, including psychiatry, clinical psychology, clinical social work, counseling psychology, mental health counseling, clinical or psychiatric social work, marriage and family therapy, rehabilitation counseling, school counseling, play therapy, music therapy, art therapy, drama therapy, dance / movement therapy, occupational therapy, psychiatric nursing, psychoanalysis and those from other psychotherapies.
It may be legally regulated, voluntarily regulated or unregulated, depending on the jurisdiction. Requirements of these professions vary, but often require graduate school and supervised clinical experience. Psychotherapy in Europe is increasingly being seen as an independent profession, rather than being restricted to being practiced only by psychologists and psychiatrists as is stipulated in some countries.
Singapore Psychotherapists Guild
Ang Mo Kio P.O. Box 0517 Singapore 915601
Email: sgpsyguild@gmail.com
Ang Mo Kio P.O. Box 0517 Singapore 915601
Email: sgpsyguild@gmail.com
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