What is Psychotherapy?
Psychotherapy, or talk therapy, is a way to help people with a broad variety of mental health conditions, emotional issues, and difficult life circumstances. The goal is to help you control or even eliminate troubling symptoms so you can improve your well-being and better handle your day-to-day challenges. Talk therapy gives you a safe space to discuss your feelings, concerns, and goals, without encountering judgment.
Psychotherapy can be offered in many different formats, including individual, couples, family, or group talk therapy sessions. We offer talk therapy for children ages 6+. For younger children, select offices offer occupational therapy, as well as play and expressive arts activities with parent training/support.
How does Psychoth
How does Psychotherapy work?
We provide tools and resources to help you live a healthier and more balanced life. We will provide support for you to resolve relationship conflict, relieve anxiety or stress, cope with major life changes, work through grief, accept life-threatening or chronic illness diagnoses, and recover from abuse.
Psychotherapy can be short-term (a few sessions) to deal with immediate challenges, or long-term (months or years) to deal with complex problems.
Can Psychotherapy help me?
We have found that when people feel supported, receive the proper treatment, and have access to the best resources, the outcomes are tremendous. To get the most help from your Psychotherapy, it is important that you commit to your agreed-upon plan of treatment, and follow through on any assignments you are given, such as journaling or practicing what you have talked about.
Our evidence-based approaches are effective for a wide range of problems. Some of the types of psychotherapy models we offer to individualize your care are:
1. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
ACT is an action-oriented approach to help you better understand there are valid alternatives to trying to change the way you think and that it can be counterproductive to suppress or control painful emotions. Changing your behavior while accepting your emotional experiences allows you to develop psychological flexibility when dealing with life events.
2. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Specialized forms of CBT are used to successfully treat specific types of mental health disorders in children, teens, and adults.
3. Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
Working with a trained therapist, DBT will help you explore your challenges, help you validate your feelings, and demonstrate the value in changing. DBT skills training can be done as an individual or in a group setting.
4. Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT)
The success of IPT comes from your willingness to change. Your therapist will guide you through a series of sessions that are designed to help you successfully handle challenges as you improve your interpersonal relationships and mental health.
5. Motivational Interviewing
The process of change is difficult for most people so a provider using this therapy style aims to meet you where you are and then help you articulate the benefits of making a significant behavioral change.
Motivational interviewing also helps prepare you for other types of therapies by guiding you to see the benefits of replacing unhealthy actions with healthier ones.
6. Psychodynamic Therapy
Psychodynamic therapy is a style of talk therapy focused on addressing the cause of emotional suffering.
Psychodynamic therapy can also give you tools to improve interpersonal relationships or the ability to work toward goals that will provide you with greater happiness or feelings of personal success.
7. Solution-focused Therapy
Solutions focused therapy is collaborative and helps you uncover the internal resources you already have to produce your desired outcome.
8. Supportive Psychotherapy
You’ll be provided with a safe space to express your feelings and you’ll be encouraged to develop a relationship with your therapist. This “therapeutic alliance” is the foundation of your treatment.
What can I expect from Psychotherapy at Orlando Premier Psychiatry Behavioral Health?
You can expect to be understood and supported in whatever you share. There is no right or wrong answer when it comes to dialogue and discussion during talk therapy. The facilitator of a session may ask some questions to help you get started. In other cases, you may talk about whatever is on your mind, and the discussion will flow from there.
You should never feel forced or pushed by a therapist to discuss events or experiences you are not yet ready to address. If a therapist asks a question that you feel uncomfortable answering, you can simply state that you do not wish to discuss it. A therapist may try to guide discussions, allowing you to make connections between experiences, thoughts, and behaviors, but a therapist will not force you to discuss things you do not wish to discuss.
