How Psychotherapy Works

Psychotherapy provides a secure and confidential space in which the client may discuss any issues relating to life which have caused or continue to cause pain. When the client is able to use what is offered by the psychotherapist, a relationship begins to develop in which safety, trust, respect, understanding and warmth helps the person understand and process the source of the difficulty.

• Confidence and self-esteem can be improved and often the despair and inability to move forward is removed. The relationship the client has with icap is confidential, this confidentiality is broken ONLY when written consent is given by the client (when the client specifically requests that their psychotherapist discuss their case with for example their Doctor), in criminal cases, serious acts of harm to self and/or others, or if the therapist is summonsed by a Court of Law. Clear boundaries are crucial, particularly when we are working with clients who have been betrayed or abused.
  
• The psychotherapist usually sees the client at the same time each week, in the same room, for the same amount of time (50 minutes). The psychotherapist facilitates the client in working at his or her own pace, working within the familiar environment created for the session.
  
• Psychotherapy is not a 'quick fix'. It takes enormous patience, understanding and commitment on both the psychotherapist's and the client's part. Sometimes clients are not able to see it through and the internal pain can seem too much. Yet it is usual for the client to express this fear and acquire the confidence and self-assurance to move forward and beyond it. There can be occasions when the client may decide that short-term work is adequate, and decides to come back at a later date for further work.
  
• The environment is a non-judgmental one. The psychotherapist has the capacity and understanding to enable the client to engage in whatever way is best for the person at that particular time in life.

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