Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy is a process of exploring, understanding, and helping you overcome problems, worries, or unhappiness in your life. It involves a regular series of meetings with a psychotherapist, with whom you sit and talk. There is no medication, altered states of consciousness, manipulation, or physical contact. Just talking and listening.
Psychotherapy tries to explore the hidden layers of the mind, which are probably contributing towards your problems at the moment. It relies on you doing a lot of the work, and learning to recognise and to speak freely about what you are thinking and feeling.
There are many different styles of psychotherapy. My own preferred way of working is called "psychodynamic". I can help you explore the unconscious forces that have shaped your life, from childhood onwards. I don't act as a detached expert, but as a partner in this exploration. Together, we try to discover how these unconscious forces - dynamics - have shaped those patterns in your behaviour or relationships that are troubling you. We will very likely find some insights into your unconscious self that you would not be able to reach unaided.
Armed with this new level of understanding, many people find that they can tackle problems they thought were insoluble, and bring some relief and happiness into their own and others' lives that they thought they never could.