Common Concerns / Issues
There are many reasons that people seek help from a psychologist. Just as you go see an accountant to get help with your tax, a personal trainer to get help getting fit, people come to see psychologist to improve their mental health. Some of the common reasons people come include:
- Anxiety and worry
- Depression
- Trauma and PTSD
- Grief and loss
- Low self esteem
- Coping with life transitions – retirement, redundancy, becoming a parent, empty nest…
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Phobias (fear of flying, spiders etc)
- Childhood behavioural and emotional difficulties including separation anxiety, children coping with parent divorce or separation, autism spectrum support, OCD and oppositional and defiant behaviour and self harm
- Parenting and relationship difficulties (with parents, parents, friends or siblings)
- Couple counselling
- Personality disorders
- Psychosis
- Suicidal feelings