Reasons people seek psychotherapy include:
Young people and adults
- Sexual and/or physical or emotional abuse, past or present
- Panic attacks and recurring anxiety attacks
- Social phobia
- Self-knowledge
- Low self-esteem or lack self-confidence
- Identity crisis
- Crisis or trauma
- Addictive behaviours, such as drug and alcohol addiction
- Depression (child, adolescent, adult, post-natal)
- Difficulty in expressing feelings
- Difficulty in dealing with dilemmas or change
- Difficulty in coping with loss: mourning, the end of a relationship, leaving home for a child, unemployment, etc
- Difficulty in managing anger, frustration or aggression
- Eating Disorders
- Psychosomatic disorders
- Fear that feelings such as anger, sadness, etc. take hold of the person
- Moments of transition, such as maternity, entering retirement, etc
- Loving relationships, conflict management and feelings such as jealousy, envy, loneliness, problems in forming or maintaining relationships, emotional dependence
- Issues related to childhood
- Problems related to work
- Feelings of unhappiness or emptiness
- Sexuality
- Post-traumatic stress
Teenagers
- Anxiety, fears, phobias
- Bullying and its consequences
- Eating disorders (bulimia, anorexia, obesity)
- Risky behaviours
- Family conflicts
- Difficulties in dealing with school
- Difficulties in loving relationships
- Body image, low self-esteem
- Social or school dysfunction
- Educational and vocational guidance
- Behavioural problems
- Sexuality and/or sexual identity
- Sadness, apathy, depression
Children
- Aggression
- Apathy and isolation
- Sudden mood changes
- Anxiety, fears and phobias
- Jealousy
- Obsessive behavior, fixed ideas
- Learning disabilities
- Eating disorders
- Bereavement issues
- Adjustment problems
- Recurrence of past fears
- Sadness and depression