Tag: online psychotherapy
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What Depression Actually Does To a Person Beneath the Surface
Low mood is certainly one aspect of depression, but depression is often far more complex than simply feeling unhappy. In clinical practice, depression can affect a person’s energy, motivation, relationships, physical health, ability to think clearly, sense of meaning, and capacity to engage with life itself.
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Why Talking About Loneliness in Therapy Can Be So Important
Loneliness is one of the most common human experiences, yet it is often one of the most difficult subjects for people to talk about openly.
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Anxiety and What It Does To a Person Beneath the Surface
Anxiety is one of the most common psychological experiences people bring to psychotherapy. Many individuals describe feeling constantly worried, restless, overwhelmed, fearful, tense, or unable to relax.
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Why People Repeat The Same Emotional Patterns
Many people notice that they keep returning to the same emotional patterns, even when those patterns cause distress. They may repeatedly feel rejected, become overwhelmed by anxiety, withdraw when they need support, become intensely self-critical, enter similar relationship dynamics, or react to conflict in ways they later regret.
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The Difference Between Knowing and Changing in Psychotherapy
Insight is often treated as the central goal of psychological work: if someone understands why they feel the way they do, the assumption is that the difficulty should resolve. In clinical practice, however, this isn’t always the case.
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Why Therapy Is More Than Talking About Problems
Talking about problems and actual psychological change are often assumed to be the same thing, particularly from the outside perspective of therapy. However, in clinical practice, they are fundamentally different processes.
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Understanding the Main Forms of Psychological Therapy
Psychotherapy, counselling, and CBT all developed from different historical and theoretical traditions, and the way they are used today reflects that evolution. Psychotherapy has its roots in early psychoanalytic thinking in the late 19th and early 20th century, particularly the work of Sigmund Freud and later developments within psychodynamic theory.
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What Online Psychotherapy Is and How It Works
Online psychotherapy is a form of psychological therapy delivered remotely using secure video platforms such as Microsoft Teams or Zoom. In most cases, it follows the same clinical structure, boundaries, and therapeutic principles as in-person psychotherapy.