Frequently Asked Questions
The Most Common Questions
Psychotherapy is a counseling experience that enables you to identify psychological (mental, emotional, or of the mind) concerns that impact your day-to-day experience of life in either of the following:
- In your emotional state either due to depression, anxiety, fear or trauma stemming from an environmental pressure, brain chemical imbalance, genetic predisposition (someone in your family may have a history of anxiety or depression).
- With a family member (mother, father, brother or sister).
- With a close friend or intimate partner (i.e. spouse, boyfriend, girlfriend).
- With a work relationship (co – worker, boss, work colleague).
Psychotherapy enables you to explore the source of the problem state that you are experiencing, problem solve, gain insight and create a action plan to improve your understanding of the problem with the goal of improving your quality of life.
How it differs from psychotherapy (although similar)
exemplified below:
Coaching is a professional relationship that utilizes motivation, skill building, strategic planning and goal setting methods.
Coaching focuses on performance and planned change based on a set of goals and or noting an area of blockage that may be preventing progress in one’s endeavors that can be enhanced with the support of a coach.
The psychotherapist primarily focuses on the individual’s human behaviors and issues from a more in-depth and clinical assessment based on various underlying psychological issues that are assessed and warrant in-depth psychotherapy.
Psychotherapy is generally designed to resolve, educate, overcome and or process psychological, emotional, physical and or mental health related issues.
Psychotherapy is designed to focus on you and your circumstance in an effort to be objective with the goal to give you insight, awareness. Your therapist is non-judgmental and is a focused and attentive listener to support, assess and recommend various ways to help you approach life in new ways with new skills. It provides expertise in helping you to improve your life’s circumstances by using some of the tools identified above.
