Talking therapies
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Talking therapies can help you deal with negative thoughts and feelings and make positive changes.
Talking therapy involves talking to a trained professional about your thoughts, feelings and behaviour. Describing what’s going on in your head and how that makes you feel can help you notice any patterns you may want to change. It can help you work out where your negative feelings and ideas come from and why they are there.
Understanding all this can help you make positive changes, take greater control of your life and improve your confidence.
This page uses the word ‘talking therapy’, but you may also hear it referred to as talking treatment, counselling, therapy, psychotherapy or psychological therapy.
Who can benefit from talking therapy?
Talking therapy can help with:
- difficult life events such as bereavement or redundancy
- relationship problems
- events from your past that still cause you distress – consciously or unconsciously
- difficult feelings such as anger, shame or low self-e...
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