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Oct
11

How Aromatherapy Promotes Healing – Guest Article

Aromatherapy is using powerful aromatic oils to promote healing and rest. The oils are usually made from herbs, and each has specific curing qualities. A common example would be lavender. This flower is utilized to encourage rest and alleviate tension. The oils can be used in a bathtub, used within a vaporizer, or rubbed directly onto the skin. When using aromatherapy, the oils are usually breathed in...
Sep
15

Play Therapy

Play Therapy Play therapy is based upon the fact that play is the child’s natural medium of self-expression. It is an opportunity which is given to the child to ‘play out’ his feelings and problems just as, in certain types of adult therapy, an individual ‘talks out’ his difficulties. Virginia M Axline, Play Therapy Play has been called ‘children’s work’ and indeed if you ever watch a child at play you...
Sep
15

Online Therapy

Online Therapy Online therapy allows the client and therapist to work together without meeting. This may be via instant chat, email or Skype. It has been seen as especially suitable for clients who cannot easily access face-to-face services, perhaps because they are home-bound, work unusual hours, or live in a remote area. One of the arguments against online therapy has been that much of the richness and depth of...
Sep
15

Family Therapy

Family Therapy A family therapist works with several members of the same family to explore and resolve family issues or sometimes to improve communication within the family. There are a number of differences between family and individual therapy. In family therapy, it is the family unit rather than the individuals that are the focus of the therapy process, although each individual’s experience within the family is...
Sep
15

Couple Therapy

Couple Therapy Couple therapy is the process of counseling the parties of a relationship in an effort to recognise and to better manage or reconcile troublesome differences and repeating patterns of distress. Sarah Gibson Couple therapy is a relatively new form of therapy, sometimes called couple counseling, relationship therapy or marriage counseling. Prior to the emergence of early marriage counseling in the 1960s,...
Sep
15

Sex Therapy

Sex Therapy Sex therapists work with couples or individuals to explore and resolve sexual difficulties. Sex therapists are fully qualified therapists who have extra training in helping people who have problems with sex. Sometimes, sex therapy forms part of couple therapy that looks at wider issues within the relationship too. Many people have a problem with sex at some point in their life. Some people deal with...
Sep
15

Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy Psychotherapy is a form of talking therapy that supports clients in exploring emotional problems and mental health conditions, including depression, anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Psychotherapy is sometimes known as counseling. Athough traditionally there were a number of differences between psychotherapy and counseling – notably that...

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