Tim Hill

People like you come to psychotherapy for a wide variety of reasons. Some of these include:

• Anxiety and stress,
• Depression,
• Panic attacks,
• Relationship issues and breakdown,
• Work issues, and,
• Unresolved things from the past.

You might come because you just want to get some things off your chest. In other cases, you may not even be sure of what it is; only through talking to someone do you find out what you want to work on.

All sorts of people come to psychotherapy with me – people just like you and me. In many cases their lives motor along quite well, but sometimes there are some aspects that just aren’t working. Psychotherapy is about getting these parts working too.

How long does it take?

This depends very much on you, what you want to deal with and the depth to which you want to explore it. It really is impossible to say. Some people come for a fairly short time, deal with what they came for and leave satisfied.

More typically, people initially come for a short time and end up staying for a longer time when they find psychotherapy relevant and useful for them. A typical arrangement would be open-ended, but one in which both you and I have committed to the work. This commitment is extremely important to achieving the changes that are important to you. More often than not, as we sort one thing out, the deeper awareness we have gained brings to our attention a deeper problem.

However, it is important to understand that it is very difficult to achieve any lasting improvement if you only come for one or two sessions. It takes us a while to develop a pattern we don't like in ourselves; it will almost always take a while to change it.