When is psychotherapy useful?
You may be thinking of psychotherapy because you are in psychological pain of some kind, and need to find a way through it. Emotional suffering destroys our contentment with life. You may be experiencing anxiety, grief, despair, depression, even anger. There may be relationship issues. You may be searching for a meaningful career, or seeking the strength to change your life. You may simply want to work on your inner self.
What does the Jungian approach to psychotherapy provide?
By gaining awareness of the patterns of behaviour and interaction that prompt emotional reactions, we can dig down to the root causes of suffering. Often they are related to past experience, and generally they have been governing us from outside conscious awareness. Dreams and other promptings from the unconscious are useful here. By bringing up these issues into consciousness, we start to loosen their hold over us. When this happens, the result is not only relief from pain, but a greater sense of ourselves, of ‘who I am’ and of what matters to me. You will gain greater clarity about relationships as well.
What are the benefits of Jungian psychotherapy and counselling?
When blockages dissolve, energy is released. Patients of psychotherapy report that they can clearly direct their energies towards their unique abilities and goals, and create a more meaningful and fulfilling life. The experience of psychotherapy provides the self-knowledge to deal with any future emotional difficulties.
