The Therapy Guy

How Therapy Can Help?

January 25, 2020 The Therapy Guy Season 1 Episode 1
The Therapy Guy
How Therapy Can Help?
Show Notes Transcript

This episode discusses how therapy can help when we have friends and family around as our support network.
It discusses what you could expect from a therapist and a session when you attend. 
What questions you could ask. Let me hear your feedback and questions that you would like me to answer or discuss in future episodes.

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Hi and welcome.

Thanks for listening and for coming back to

our first ever episode of The Therapy Guy.

For those of you who listen to my

introduction, thank you for coming and tuning in.

For those of you who didn't, I'll introduce myself.

My name is Alan.

I'm the director of two mental health

companies based in Plymouth in the UK.

And these podcasts are based around your mental health,

what We Do as a service, how mental health

services can help you and obviously answer any questions

you may have or tell you about specific subjects

and interests and certain therapies.

So thanks for today. Here we go.

We're going to be sort of talking about why you

would consider going into therapy in the first place.

Now, there's lots of different reasons that people come

and visit and use a service like ours and

they range from the classic anxiety, depression, low mood,

those sorts of things, to things like addictions, OCD,

everything to do with relationships and all that. Sort.

The issue comes really is for a lot of

people, is they may be nervous or a little

bit concerned because they don't know what to expect

from a therapist and their therapy session.

Well, what I like to do today really is explain

the sort of benefits and maybe what you'd experience if

you actually attended a therapy session with a therapist, with

the aim of being able to support you, moving on.

So firstly, what you expect is some sort

of confidentiality agreement you're going to be talking

about in a relationship that you and the

therapist would have the clauses of the confidentiality.

There's certain types of clauses that can mean

the therapist can break your confidentiality at certain

times, but these tend to be in extreme

circumstances and the therapist should talk about this

and clarify everything that you need to know.

This isn't something that you

should generally worry about.

Most times, everything that you say

in a counselling session will be

completely confidential within that particular service.

It's an impartial.

So an impartiality to those sessions.

So rather than trying to talk to our friends and

our family, where we might philtre things, or where we

might feel under pressure because the friends and family might

try to make us feel better and at that time

we're struggling, a therapist is very impartial.

So what they're doing is they're listening to you,

they're hearing what you're saying and they're feeding back

different things that you can do, helping the ways

you could change your thinking and what we can

do together, working together around, enabling you to move

on in the right way.

This might include communicating with people around you in

a different way, but also it's all about yourself,

raising your self esteem, raising your awareness and understanding

of what is going on and why you're thinking

in the way that you can do.

What we tend to do with lots of people, we

tend to filter what we say so we'll tell them

we're feeling a bit down or a bit anxious, but

we struggle to actually explain the reasons as to why.

And we also don't really want to sometimes

explain the depth of those feelings to the

people who love and care for us.

A therapist will help you discuss all that.

Be open and honest and maybe for the first time

you actually get to talk to somebody who listens completely

to yourself and is not shocked or doesn't feel the

need to rush in to rescue you and fix everything.

So it really does encourage you to feel good, free to

say whatever is that is on your mind at that time,

and to discuss it in a private and secure way.

Lots of us obviously enter into therapy.

It's more and more common,

it's more and more acceptable.

Now, people have this perception sometimes

of who enters into therapy.

They have this classy or classic view of the

sort of people and I can tell you straight

away from my experience, whatever you're thinking, it's more

likely a far distance from the truth.

The people that I see are everyday

people just like you and me.

They range completely from people who may be from a

lower class or a bracket, on a wage bracket, so

they might be on benefits of some court, right up

to people with extreme amounts of wealth.

There'll be jobs, different areas in jobs, people who

may have manual labour, that sort of thing, all

the way up to people who are highly educated.

Mental health doesn't care about how much you earn,

it doesn't care about how many qualifications you got.

It affects us all.

So if you're worried about that sort of

thing or you're nervous about coming in.

Things that I would suggest is that you look

around your area for someone who might offer you

a free consultation so you can go along and

you can meet them without any pressure.

Without any financial cost or anything else.

And you can discuss and get a sense of who

that person is and whether they can actually help you.

I would ask what their specialisms are, what their

experiences and how they feel that they can help

you, and what the benefits that their service or

their therapy is going to bring to you.

In a future episode

we'll discuss different types of therapy because there's

a huge range of different types of therapy

that's available now and sometimes again, we can

get a bit confused about which therapy is

going to be the best for ourselves.

Whether it's CBT, EMDR, hypotherapy,

there's a whole range.

And again, our service offers all of these

things, so it's something we're experienced with.

If you have any questions or would like to give

us any feedback about what you'd like me to talk

about and any concerns or questions you have specifically for

yourself or something you might be related to or caring

for, please don't hesitate to get in contact. I'm here.

I'm a therapy guy.

This is your chance to actually express what you

need and for us to meet that need.

Like I said, in future episodes, we're

going to be getting guests in.

We're going to be talking about specific types of

therapy that may be to help you and give

you a further understanding of what they are and

the benefits that each one of those can bring.

So I look forward to you tuning in.

Again, I look forward to talking to you and for the

day I'm going to sign off as the therapy guy.

And I hope you have a great day. Bye.