Why Choose
Integrative Psychotherapy?
Psychotherapy does not offer a ‘quick fix’. Emotional pain and suffering is real and the states of mind associated with mental pain are often enduring and debilitating, affecting your relationships, how you function at work, and how you organize your life day-to-day.
Integrative psychotherapy looks at your problems in great depth. It is a therapeutic approach that takes your mind and your experience as the focus of exploration and investigation. The deeper we look into the causes and conditions of suffering, generated by the habits of your mind and conditioned by what you think and how you feel, the more freedom is experienced emotionally. Suffering is real and touches every life in some form with some intensity. This is difficult to accept though the evidence for it is everywhere. The truth of suffering is intimidating. We are so ill prepared to face suffering directly that we create states of mind to dull our mental pain.
But suffering can be understood. The causes can be identified in each of our lives. This requires courage, compassion and sustained commitment. Once the causes of suffering have been learned about one can decrease, even bring to an end, the habits of mind that give rise to and perpetuate suffering. By discovering the ways we create and prolong suffering in ourselves, and in others, we can gradually gain a stronger sense of who we are and how we function which often brings a sense of profound relief. This approach takes time.
An integrative psychotherapist will work together with you to determine the best treatment plan for your special set of circumstances, ultimately combining a wide range of techniques to assist in the recovery and healing process. The main focus always being on working through your issues to improve your life in the here and now.
What to Expect:
What to Expect:
Psychotherapy and Counselling provides a safe and confidential setting in which to explore thoughts, worries, feelings, memories, dreams and fantasies.
Throughout history the therapeutic relationship has taken many forms. Its purpose has been not only to relieve suffering but to enable a person to achieve a deeper self-understanding and so begin to live more fully in the present and face the future more creatively.
If you have not had counselling or psychotherapy sessions before you may not be too sure about what to expect.
As an Integrative Psychotherapist I will ensure that we approach each session in a way that is the most useful for you to work with at that time.
In the first session I will find out some background information about yourself and discuss what you hope to achieve from the therapy. In subsequent sessions you decide what you want to discuss.
Sessions are weekly. Talking about yourself and issues you have may not initially feel easy. You may feel very emotional, or you may feel puzzled and unsure of what is happening, particularly after the first few sessions. This is normal and is a part of working through the process. Whatever you bring will be heard and explored, my role will be to help you make sense of what you bring so that you can reach a meaningful outcome and move forward.
The Individual Psychotherapy/Counselling Session rate is R1200.00 per 50-minutes session.
The Couple’s Therapy Session rate is R1400.00 per 50-minutes session.
Please contact me on 082 453 7502 or by e-mail bryanhellmanntherapy@gmail.com to make an appointment.
Please contact me on 082 453 7502 or by e-mail bryanhellmanntherapy@gmail.com to make an appointment.