subject: Anxiety Therapy, Children Therapy And Couples Counseling A Brief Look At 3 Important Therapy Top [print this page] Anxiety therapy, children therapy and couples counseling are three types of counseling that are very important today, as many more people recognize the need for qualified intervention in these areas. People are increasingly getting attuned to the fact that feelings of extreme anxiety, the mental well being of children, and the delicate relationship issues between couples, are all things that cant be left to chance or time. Therefore, we will briefly look at each of these three therapy topics below, in case you too have felt that you need help in any of these areas.
Anxiety therapy
Feeling anxious is fairly common occurrence for all of us; who doesnt feel worried when they are late for that important job interview, or when a loved one takes very long to return home at night? However, for some of us, these feelings can be debilitating, stopping us from going about our daily lives. Unlike the temporary anxiety caused by one stressful event, anxiety disorders last 6 months or more. Without expert anxiety therapy, such disorders have a high chance of worsening.
An anxiety therapist is skilled in helping people with different anxiety disorders, like social anxiety, panic disorders, OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) and GAD (Generalized Anxiety Disorder). Treatment approaches may include cognitive behavioral therapy, and exposure therapy, as well as medication, complemented by lifestyle changes.
Children Therapy
Child counseling or children therapy are required not only in cases where they have been abused, physically, emotionally or verbally, though such cases definitely need attention from a qualified child psychologist. It can also play an important role in which children are facing emotional and mental stress due to events and circumstances like the impending divorce or separation of parents, a terminal illness in the family, below average academic performance and so on. A child may become withdrawn and sullen, or angry and destructive, or exhibit other extremes of behavior, as a way of coping with these things.
A child psychologist can create a non judgmental yet empathetic atmosphere for a child or young adolescent, encouraging her to speak out far more freely than with her parents. An experienced child psychologist can help children and adolescents adjust to changed circumstances in the best way, and to learn more effective coping strategies for their personal issues.
Couples counseling
Our relationships with our partners are invaluable sources of joy for most of us, most of the time. But as we have all seen, there is great potential of these bonds being challenged by different types of issues like communication problems, financial problems, sexual difficulties, parenting challenges, substance abuse, anger management and infidelity.
Couples therapy emphasizes improved relationship skills and conflict resolution. It is a very active type of therapy, and couples may be given assignments by a therapist as part of the couples counseling process. A couple may be given communication exercises to practice at home, or they may be asked to practice actively assigning different chores within the home amongst themselves.
