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The type of issues or conditions you may seek counselling or psychotherapy for could include any of the following:

• ANXIETY RELATED DISORDERS AND POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER (PTSD) e.g. stress, phobias (including social phobias), lack of confidence, performance anxiety (including public speaking and sport performance), managing difficult people/assertion issues (see relationships), accident and personal injury.
• ADDICTIONS, OBSESSIONAL COMPULSIVE BEHAVIOURS (OCD),  UNWANTED HABITS/BEHAVIORS. Addictions may include substances, gambling and shopping, or obsessional compulsive behaviours (OCD).  Unwanted habits are any unhelpful patterns of behaviour that result in a loss of quality in life.
• DEPRESSION. Low self esteem, lack of motivation, lacking fun (or other quality of life issues).
• BEREAVMENT, GRIEF AND LOSS. Loss of a loved one, loss of health, loss/ending of a significant relationship, redundancy or retirement adjustment, any other losses or changes in life requiring adjustment/adaptation.
• RELATIONSHIP ISSUES. Family, marital or sexual relationship issues (including gender identity issues), harassment at work or bullying, shyness and lack of social confidence.
• UNRESOLVED CHILDOOD OR PAST ISSUES. Child abuse or neglect, other traumatic experiences even if years in the past.
• HYPOCHONDRIASIS. Fear of physical illness( fear of medical treatments/interventions) or over preoccupation with health issues in the absence of ill health.
• PAIN MANAGEMENT. Following an appropriate assessment and referral from a medical practitioner.
• ANGER MANAGEMENT AND ASSERTION. Issues of physical and verbal abuse from either a receiving or giving focus. Managing difficult relationships in the work place, socially or family. Assertion skills or the art of influencing people.
• MEANING AND FULLFILMENT IN LIFE. Coping with “a mid life crisis”, finding the right career, establishing life values.

This list of possible issues and themes for counselling and psychotherapy may not include the concerns you have.  Please do discuss your specific needs when first making contact with Systemic Solutions.