Laura is a Chartered Counselling Psychologist registered with the British Psychological Society, the representative body for Psychologists in the UK. She offers adult individual and parent-infant psychological assessments and therapy on a part-time private basis. I can see clients from North Yorkshire, County Durham and from around the North East at my premises in Darlington.
Psychotherapy is a treatment which aims to alleviate psychological distress through the medium of talking. It assists people in understanding their own mind and the way they think and behave. People are attracted to therapy as an alternative to medication for a variety of reasons, some want to understand themselves further, others want to change the way they are feeling or behaving, some common reasons include;
Although people share common problems, everyone is unique in their experience of emotional distress. Therapeutic interventions will always be based on your unique life history, your personality, current situation and difficulties (see process of therapy). No one approach to treatment suits everyone and this is the value in seeing a psychologist trained in using different approaches.
