How Does Psychotherapy Work and What Should You Expect From It?
What is Psychotherapy?
Psychotherapy or talk therapy is a kind of treatment that helps in treating challenges and symptoms related to mental health and emotions.
One of psychotherapy’s benefits is that it helps the person to understand his feelings and help him face new challenges, both present challenges or future ones.
Psychotherapy is as same as counseling, they both can overlap, and help the person understand their feelings more. However, psychotherapy tends to look more deeply, as it addresses the underlying causes of a person’s problems as well as how to solve them.
When to see the positive result of Psychotherapy?
After beginning to adapt to Psychotherapy, you can start to see positive results after understanding the need for change, it also depends on finding a suitable therapist that you can trust.
How does it work?
Psychotherapy helps in treating so many mental illnesses, it can help with depression, low self-esteem, addiction, bereavement. It can also help treat bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and certain other mental health conditions. People often, but not always, use both psychotherapy and medication.
What to expect from Psychotherapy?
There is more than one approach to psychotherapy, some of the sessions may last for few months, and others may last for years. It mainly depends on the person’s need.
Psychotherapy sessions may be one-to-one, in pairs, or in groups, also techniques during the psychotherapy may vary from talking and other forms of communication, such as drama, story-telling, or music.
Who can benefit? When to approach?
Everyone who has a problem with something can be helped and solved through psychotherapy, it may benefit someone who:
- Overwhelming feelings of sadness or helplessness
- Feeling of anxiety
- Difficulty with facing everyday challenges
- Drug and alcohol problems
- Harming and hurting themselves.
- Experience with abusing
Types of Psychotherapy
There are several types of Psychotherapy approaches, and it depends on the patient’s condition and illness, in the following some types of Psychotherapy are most used:
1- Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT): it helps people to identify, and change their way of thinking, and behavior patterns.
2- Interpersonal therapy (IPT): It helps patients understand underlying interpersonal issues, like unresolved grief, changes in social or work roles.
3- Psychodynamic therapy: is based on the idea that behavior and mental well-being are influenced by childhood experiences and inappropriate repetitive thoughts or feelings that are unconscious (outside of the person’s awareness).
Remember that it is never too late to a therapist consult, if you need any mental consult please don’t hesitate to contact Dr. Mona Reda on 02 24159997- 01112169556 – 01002169556
Or visit the clinic at this address: 93 El Merghany Street Cairo, Egypt
