The duration of psychotherapy is varied and totally up to you. You may want short term, solution focussed counselling to support you through a particular difficulty. Short-term counselling may be 4-8 sessions and if you feel you have the support, tools and recourses to stop therapy then, that’s great.
You might be wondering what the difference is. Psychotherapy vs Psychology vs Psychiatry. The short answer is that there are quite a few differences in the way that each of these professions approach their work.
People see therapists for many reasons. Some small, some large and seemingly insurmountable. Some see different counsellors over the years, tackling different angles of the same problem. And some couldn’t think of anything worse than opening up their inner world to a stranger.
Gestalt therapy can be difficult to explain, as it is a process that is usually understood through experience. With that in mind, I’ve written this article with the aim of explaining Gestalt therapy and what you might expect when embarking on this style of treatment.