What Is Psychotherapy Or Counselling About

Graeme McCartney provides Psychotherapy, Counselling and Supervision in Wellington, Levin and 94.72.103.111 the Kapiti Coast. Graeme offers face to face, or online sessions to best meet your needs. What is Psychotherapy or Counselling about? Sometimes problems can be external and come from what happens in life, or in contact with other people. Sometimes problems can be internal and come from within ourselves. How we feel about ourselves, how we see ourselves and what we believe about ourselves. Often these problems are linked and cause emotional pain and confusion. Counselling can help to identify alternative options and how to make behavioural changes. This can lead to some resolution and can help us to find our way through life again. Psychotherapy can help us to discover our way back to ourselves and to re-connect with the vital and authentic parts of ourselves that we can, over a number of years, and in a variety of ways come to deny or suppress. This can often be traced back to our earlier developmental years. Denying or suppressing parts of ourselves is, I believe, what often contributes to anxiety/depression, AI (https://solitaryai.art/) addiction, self-esteem problems, shame, and many other issues. Psychotherapy is a process of coming to understand these reactions not as defects in ourselves, but as creative adjustments that we made at times when, perhaps, we had limited inner resources available to us. Psychotherapy leads to an increase in self awareness. One becomes more aware of the significance of their relationship with the therapist as it develops over time, and can then use this awareness to help them make changes. Addictions, Alcohol, Drug and other addictions. Existential issues, who am I? What does my life mean?  Th᠎is data w as w​ritt en by GSA C on tent Gener᠎ator DEMO!


Drinking alcohol undoubtedly is a part of American culture, as are conversations between parents and children about its risks. Alcohol affects people differently at different stages of life-for children and adolescents, alcohol can interfere with normal brain development. Alcohol’s differing effects and parents’ changing role in their children’s lives as they mature and seek greater independence can make talking about alcohol a challenge. Parents may have trouble setting concrete family policies for alcohol use. And Art they may find it difficult to communicate with children and adolescents about alcohol-related issues. Research shows, however, that teens and young adults do believe their parents should have a say in whether they drink alcohol. Parenting styles are important-teens raised with a combination of encouragement, warmth, and appropriate discipline are more likely to respect their parents’ boundaries. Understanding parental influence on children through conscious and unconscious efforts, as well as when and how to talk with children about alcohol, can help parents have more influence than they might think on a child’s alcohol use.


Parents can play an important role in helping their children develop healthy attitudes toward drinking while minimizing its risk. Adolescent alcohol use remains a pervasive problem. The percentage of teenagers who drink alcohol is slowly declining; however, numbers are still quite high. Accumulating evidence suggests that alcohol use-and in particular binge drinking-may have negative effects on adolescent development and increase the risk for alcohol dependence later in life.2,3 This underscores the need for parents to help delay or prevent the onset of drinking as long as possible. Parenting styles may influence whether their children follow their advice regarding alcohol use. Authoritarian parents typically exert high control and discipline with low warmth and responsiveness. For example, they respond to bad grades with punishment but let good grades go unnoticed. Permissive parents typically exert low control and discipline with high warmth and responsiveness. For example, they deem any grades at all acceptable and fail to correct behavior that may lead to bad grades.


Neglectful parents exert low control and discipline as well as low warmth and responsiveness. For example, they show no interest at all in a child’s school performance. Authoritative parents exert high control and discipline along with high warmth and responsiveness. Some parents wonder whether allowing their children to drink in the home will help them develop an appropriate relationship with alcohol. According to most studies this does not appear to be the case. In a study of 6th, 7th, and 8th graders, researchers observed that students whose parents allowed them to drink at home and/or provided them with alcohol experienced the steepest escalation in drinking.9 Other studies suggest that adolescents who are allowed to drink at home drink more heavily outside of the home.10 In contrast, adolescents are less likely to drink heavily if they live in homes where parents have specific rules against drinking at a young age and also drink responsibly themselves.11 However, not all studies suggest that parental provision of alcohol to teens leads to trouble.