Welcome to the
Integrative Psychotherapy Centre

What is Psychotherapy?

"Psychotherapy is a hard and exciting endeavour. It is work, rewarding work. Transactional analysis psychotherapy is a collaborative effort ("collaborate" comes from the Latin word collaborare, which means "labor together"). You and your therapist will have a working relationship, one that may be gentle and supportive at times but challenging, conflictual, and even disorganizing at others. Your therapist’s primary job is to provide you with a respectful and reliable space within which the two of you (or perhaps a group of you) can reflect, explore, and experiment with feelings, beliefs, and interpersonal behaviour. Things that you may have taken for granted about yourself, life, and others will be opened to question. You will have the opportunity to examine how you relate to yourself internally and with others interpersonally. You will work with your present-day relationships, on the one hand, and look at the lingering influences of childhood relationships on the formation of your beliefs, feelings, and behaviour, on the other. Your willingness to question, be questioned, reflect, challenge your beliefs, and experiment with new possibilities is at the heart of your job as a client."

An extract from "What am I getting myself into" William F Cornell