Psychotherapy, Counselling & Inspiration
The term Psychotherapy has taken on a range of meanings over the years. Just as Counselling, Therapy or Psychotherapy is something that you will have heard about at different points in your life, it may be that these words have a new meaning for you now.
Psychotherapy, Therapy and its comfortable cousin Hypnotherapy have long been used to address the stress and anxiety that built up in society. The word Psychotherapy can be derived from two ancient Greek words- Psyche (meaning soul) and Therapeia (care or service). In your search for help, you may actually be looking for what the renowned Therapist Thomas Moore describes as Care of the Soul.
Assisi Therapy is based in Salisbury, a Medieval Cathedral City in Southern England that exists simply because humanity has long recognised that the soul, psyche or mind needs help to make sense of the pressure, stress and anxiety which life can create. Where temples and religion were once the centre of counselling and guidance, the modern world offers as many ways to seek help as there are problems to overcome. For this reason, a combined approach of different Therapies can offer clients a broad road to help and understanding of their issues.
Our search for relief from our problems taps into an age-old struggle to be free of the weight of judgement and negativity that a complex life can often create. Your stress, anger issues, habits or phobia, are all reactions to the life you have lived. Whether you are looking for Therapy, Counselling, Psychotherapy or Hypnotherapy, you are reacting to the world around you, both now and in the past.
It is all to easy to get lost amongst the fears and stresses of modern life. But in doing so, it is just as easy to become lost in the moment. When stress and fear and worry are weighing you down, it can be impossible to see past the next minute let alone keep a sense of who you are in the World. Humanity has faced the same stress and anxiety since the dawn of time and sometimes your brain gets confused about whether the threat it senses is existential or something to be readily dismissed. Bad driving on the school run can quickly become a virtual Lion, causing us to react from somewhere deep inside us- beyond consciousness.
But what does Salisbury really have to do with Psychotherapy? Salisbury is a city that many people dismiss as small, parochial or dull. This negativity mirrors a life full of depression and anxiety. Yet when you visit Salisbury, or if you live here and are looking for Therapy in your home city- just look up. Countless generations ago, society created a miracle of stone and glass and lead that has endured everything life threw at it- The Cathedral of Salisbury with its breath-taking spire and stonework that speaks to the fear and depression and anxiety that humanity sought to overcome through faith.
Faith in yourself can be the towering spire of your Therapy. You can overcome the stress of this life and discover new ways of living that will reward you, nurture you and allow you to care for your soul.