No matter if it be anxiety, depression, or another serious mental health disorder; professional counseling services can help. Many health insurance plans even cover behavioral therapy treatments for this purpose.
LIU Brooklyn Psychological Services Center offers individual and group therapy sessions on a sliding fee scale, provided by graduate students in clinical psychology under supervision from an experienced psychologist.
Counseling Psychology
Counseling psychologists work with individuals to alleviate distress, promote well-being and enhance effective life functioning. Their therapeutic approaches may include cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), humanistic therapy and psychodynamic therapy.
Counselors assist individuals to overcome life’s challenges, such as relationship troubles and job loss. These professionals offer individual or group therapy sessions for clients of all ages in mental health clinics, hospitals and medical centers, schools, colleges or private practice environments.
Psychotherapists providing counseling services in the UK are regulated by professional bodies. These organizations set standards in education, training, practice, scientific investigation, diversity and public interest of psychotherapy services provided. One such professional body is the British Psychological Society (BPS), which offers a voluntary register that allows people to identify psychotherapists who are fully qualified and insured to provide psychotherapy – this accreditation has been granted by PSA.
Humanistic/Experiential Therapy
Humanistic therapy emphasizes a person’s positive characteristics and potential for development, with its therapists considering how a client sees themselves, instinctive behavior patterns, social roles they occupy in society and questions concerning meaning of life as they try to make choices which promote health and well-being for clients.
Experiential therapies use a hands-on approach that encourages more authentic responses in difficult situations than would be possible in counseling sessions. They also offer the space needed to work through any traumas stored within yourself.
Existential-humanistic psychologists differ from the other two forces in psychology by viewing problems as socially constructed rather than inherent within any particular part of an individual’s psyche. According to these practitioners, people can become healthier through accepting that life has finite boundaries and limited control; self-healing by taking responsibility for own lives while developing intimate relationships is also encouraged.
Psychiatry
Psychiatrists are medical doctors who specialize in diagnosing and treating mental disorders. With an understanding of how genetics, family history, and environment influence emotional and psychological disorders, psychiatrists are adept at communicating effectively with their patients about their emotional states as well as creating treatment plans that best address them. Furthermore, Psychiatrists are experienced at using laboratory testing services that offer diagnostic solutions in order to create an accurate picture of each individual patient’s health conditions.
Psychotherapy (or talk therapy) entails one-on-one sessions between a patient and psychotherapist that focus on immediate stressors or long-standing issues. Professionals such as psychiatrists, psychologists, licensed social workers and licensed marriage and family therapists with additional specialized training in psychotherapy provide this service.
Psychiatrists can also prescribe medications that alter chemical signaling and communication between brain cells, providing relief for conditions such as depression, anxiety, schizophrenia and mood swings.
Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy is used to treat mental health conditions such as mood disorders, anxiety or addictions. Therapy sessions may either be short-term (e.g. immediate issues) or long-term (months or years), in order to address deeper issues. No matter which approach is taken, however, trust must first be built between patient and therapist before the process can commence.
Psychotherapy comes in various forms. Dialectical behavior therapy teaches people coping skills; acceptance and commitment therapy heightens a person’s awareness of thoughts and emotions; psychodynamic and psychoanalytic therapies explore unconscious motivations; group psychotherapy provides support and improves coping abilities among patients who share similar problems.
Psychotherapy involves intimate conversations that require confidentiality from its providers; however, in certain circumstances therapists may need to break this trust in order to protect the health and wellbeing of both themselves and their patients.