Graeme McCartney
I believe that we have the ability to find meaning for ourselves through experiencing connections with others and that Psychotherapy can assist people in deepening their awareness of their unique ways of relating with others.
Sometimes we can get caught up in trying to be someone, or something that we are not. The therapeutic alliance can help to identify how this comes about and can help us to become more fully who we really are.
I work with adult men and women, I do not provide couples work.
I will often take a family and relationship history during our first session together.
There will be time during our first session for you to also ask questions of me, this may assist you in deciding whether or not you think that we can work together.
I will also give you honest feedback about whether or not I think I am the best match for you.
Sometimes we can get caught up in trying to be someone, or something that we are not. The therapeutic alliance can help to identify how this comes about and can help us to become more fully who we really are.
I work with adult men and women, I do not provide couples work.
I will often take a family and relationship history during our first session together.
There will be time during our first session for you to also ask questions of me, this may assist you in deciding whether or not you think that we can work together.
I will also give you honest feedback about whether or not I think I am the best match for you.
What is Psychotherapy or Counselling about?
Counselling can help to identify problematic patterns and explore alternative options and how to make behavioural changes. This can lead to some resolution and can help us to find our way through life again.
Psychotherapy can help us to discover our way back to ourselves and to re-connect with the vital and authentic parts of ourselves that we can, over a number of years, and in a variety of ways come to deny or suppress. This can often be traced back to our earlier developmental years.
Denying or suppressing parts of ourselves is, I believe, what often contributes to anxiety/depression, addiction, self-esteem problems, shame, and many other issues.
Psychotherapy is a process of coming to understand these reactions not as defects in ourselves, but as creative adjustments that we made at times when, perhaps, we had limited inner resources available to us. Psychotherapy leads to an increase in self-awareness. One becomes more aware of the significance of their relationship with the therapist as it develops over time, and can then use this awareness to help them make changes.
Psychotherapy is a process that can help to resolve more entrenched problems. Deeper problems often have their roots in childhood and/or traumatic experiences. Psychotherapy can help to understand how and why problematic patterns have developed.
Psychotherapy can help us to discover our way back to ourselves and to re-connect with the vital and authentic parts of ourselves that we can, over a number of years, and in a variety of ways come to deny or suppress. This can often be traced back to our earlier developmental years.
Denying or suppressing parts of ourselves is, I believe, what often contributes to anxiety/depression, addiction, self-esteem problems, shame, and many other issues.
Psychotherapy is a process of coming to understand these reactions not as defects in ourselves, but as creative adjustments that we made at times when, perhaps, we had limited inner resources available to us. Psychotherapy leads to an increase in self-awareness. One becomes more aware of the significance of their relationship with the therapist as it develops over time, and can then use this awareness to help them make changes.
Psychotherapy is a process that can help to resolve more entrenched problems. Deeper problems often have their roots in childhood and/or traumatic experiences. Psychotherapy can help to understand how and why problematic patterns have developed.
What can one expect from Psychotherapy or Counselling?
One can reasonably expect to have a clearer sense of what is causing problems or concerns in life and to have a broader range of options to choose from. Metaphorically, this can be seen as a process of illumination.
Both psychotherapy and counselling are talking therapies and involve a two-way dialogue and a relationship in which we both commit to working together in order to further the process of understanding and insight.
Out of this process it is possible to know and understand yourself in a deeper way, and situations that previously caused considerable distress may be taken more easily in stride and lived with more comfortably.
Both psychotherapy and counselling are talking therapies and involve a two-way dialogue and a relationship in which we both commit to working together in order to further the process of understanding and insight.
Out of this process it is possible to know and understand yourself in a deeper way, and situations that previously caused considerable distress may be taken more easily in stride and lived with more comfortably.
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I am bound by the following codes of ethics:
The Psychotherapists Board of Aotearoa New Zealand | New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists
The Psychotherapists Board of Aotearoa New Zealand | New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists