Senior Magician Therapy

As a psychotherapist you'll help clients explore and express their thought processes, feelings and behaviour. Sessions with clients can cover a range of issues, including:

• addiction
• behavioural issues
• eating disorders
• emotional issues, such as anger or grief
• learning difficulties
• mental ill health, for example anxiety and depression
• sleep disorders
• work difficulties, redundancy and job loss
• relationship difficulties and divorce.

During sessions you'll use psychotherapeutic approaches to help clients understand the issues they're facing and find new ways to alleviate and deal with distress. You'll also support them to make positive changes to the way they think and behave. Depending on their circumstances, you may see clients over a few sessions or for a longer period of several years.

As well as working with individuals, couples and groups, some psychotherapists focus on work with families, children and adolescents.

Types of psychotherapist

As a psychotherapist you can take a number of approaches to your work, depending on the theoretical models you adopt and the therapy you practise.

Therapies include:

• constructivist and existential psychotherapy
• family and systemic therapies
• humanistic and integrative psychotherapy
• outcome-oriented and hypno-psychotherapies
• psychotherapy for children and young people
• psychoanalysis.

For a list of therapy approaches, see the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP)