![]() Institute of Psychotherapy and Counselling
provides a wide variety of services to treat and support clients and carers across Hong Kong. Sessions take place either on the Institute’s premises or by phone if the client prefers this or is travelling. All services are rendered in English and German. Psychotherapy Psychotherapy is intended to assist people in healing and making changes to live a more fulfilling life. There are many different types of psychotherapy. They are all ways of helping people to overcome stress, emotional problems, relationship problems or troublesome habits. What they have in common is that they are all treatments based on talking to another person and sometimes doing things together. Psychotherapy focuses on the feelings we have about other people, especially our family and those we are close to. Treatment involves discussing past experiences and how these may have led to our present situation and also how these past experiences may be affecting our life now. The understanding gained frees the person to make choices about what happens in the future. People's problems will often not be theirs alone, but are often the result of relationship problems in a marriage, partnership or family. By focusing very clearly on the relationships involved, and by involving all the people concerned, family and marital family therapy seek to help those relationships to work better. Psychotherapists may use a combination of techniques to suit the individual, and people may progress from say individual to group therapy, or marital work to individual treatment. What actually happens?
In individual psychotherapy , one client and one therapist talk together in a quiet room, about the issues which are important for the client. In group therapy, several people with similar sorts of problems meet regularly with a therapist or therapists. These sessions may be longer than in individual psychotherapy. Group therapy may appear less intimate, but in fact it is the best treatment for some problems. The experience of discovering one is not alone, and of being able to help other people, is powerfully encouraging and is often the first step towards getting better. In marital therapy, a therapist or pair of therapist will meet with a married or committed couple so that they can work on their problems jointly. In family therapy, the whole family will be involved usually talking over their difficulties with a pair of therapists. Sessions take place either on the Institute’s premises or by phone if the client prefers this or is travelling. All services are rendered in English and German. | 