Psychotherapy and Counselling Centre, Mumbai, India.

Veena Chakravarthy - Clinical Psychologist/Psychotherapist/Neuropsychologist & Counsellor 

How does Counselling and Psychotherapy Help?

Counselling helps people from all walks of life and Psychotherapy helps people with mental disorders. Psychotherapy understands the thought process, ideas, emotions and behaviour that contribute to the illness. It identifies life problems, events or stressors like- Grief-Divorce, separation, Death in a family, loss of job, major illness, high expectations, low self esteem etc.

It helps to regain self control by incorporating problem solving skills and coping skills and techniques.

Types of Therapy

Individual Therapy: In this form of therapy,the session is a one on one between the therapist and the patient. The treatment is focused only on the problems of one patient.

Group Therapy: In this form of therapy,the session is between the therapist and a group of 4-5 people participating in the therapy. The group gets to exchange ideas, problems, coping skills they share experinces and learn that others also face the same issues and traumas and feel the same way.

Marital/Couples Therapy: In this form of therapy the therapist helps the partners understand where they are going wrong and how they can understand each other better and make their realtionship more beautiful. In other cases the therapist also talks to the couples about what kind of mental disorder their partner has and how they can help them cope with it.

Family Therapy: In this therapy the entire family is involved in the sessions to understand how they can help their loved ones cope with the disorder and what various kind of support they can extend to the patient inorder for him/her to recover soon.

Approaches to Therapy

There are several approaches to therapy which a medical practitioner can choose from. After talking with the patient the therapist decides which approach to take based on the underlying factors leading to the condition.

The various approaches available are,

Psychodyanamic therapy

Interpersonal therapy

Behavioral therapy

Cognitive-behavioral therapy

Jungian therapy

Gestalt therapy and many more.

Still have questions? Please Contact Me anytime! I look forward to hearing from you.