Talking therapies are treatments which involve talking to a trained professional about your thoughts, feelings and behaviour. Talking with a Counsellor could help you to resolve complicated feelings and perhaps find ways to live with them. Talking to a Therapist  gives you a safe place and time to talk to someone who won't judge you and will help you make sense of things and understand yourself better.  They will help you recognise unhelpful patterns in the way you think or act. They will offer help to find ways to change behaviours and thoughts that may be damaging to you.

It is sometimes really hard to talk to family and friends and you just need that one neutral person who takes the time to listen and offer alternatives.

Talking therapies can help when life events are difficult such as bereavements, redundancy, separation or relationship issues. There maybe upsetting or traumatic experiences, whether it's something recent or something that happened a long time ago.

 Grief, guilt, sadness, confusion, depression, anxiety and low self-esteem are all difficult emotions and speaking through these emotions can be really helpful. For  mental health problems, talking therapies can help with a range of diagnoses, and specific talking treatments have been developed for some mental health problems.

Some people think that counselling and therapy is an extreme option, and that unless things get really bad you should try to manage on your own. But this isn't true. It's ok to try therapy at any point in your life, whatever your background.

In fact getting support from a therapist when you're not at crisis point can be really helpful ; it might feel easier to reflect on what's going on, and could help you keep things from getting worse. So lets get talking and get it all out x