There are situations in every person’s life when it is impossible to do without the support of an experienced specialist. From a psychologist you can get advice, psychological support or undergo psychotherapy (not drug treatment). When do you need professional psychological support? When you want to change your life and want to prepare for it. This could be pregnancy or starting your own business, changing your profession or going back to work after a long break. When changes have occurred or are occurring in your life and you feel that you need support to cope with them. For example, the loss or illness of a loved one, divorce. When you need to adapt to a new, changed environment: moving from another city, entering college, having a child, or a sudden career change. Change is never easy; and any, both pleasant and difficult, and even those that happen without your desire. In a friendly environment, with an unbiased professional interlocutor, you will be able to: - Discuss your hopes, doubts, fears and anxieties; - Feel confident in your own abilities; - Say goodbye to the person leaving your life; - Find your own solutions to the problems facing you; - Think about support from a professional in solving emerging difficulties. Psychological support will be effective when you do not think that you need to change anything about yourself. You just want to feel more stable and confident, to have access to your own inner resources to cope with your tasks, problems and difficulties on your own. A consultation with a psychologist will help: - make a decision; - understand a difficult situation; - understand your feelings; - understand what exactly causes difficulties and identify ways to solve them. “I’m confused,” “I’m in a stupor,” “I don’t know what to do,” people often say when they come to a psychologist. The psychologist does not know the correct answer, but he will help clarify the situation and reveal its pros and cons. It will help you look at the situation differently, from a new, perhaps unusual, side. Together with a psychologist, you will be able to understand your feelings, even the most contradictory and confusing ones. Discuss your fears, hopes and concerns. You will be able to better understand yourself, other people and your situation. And understanding what you want and don’t want, what is happening, will help you make the right decision. For example, such as: - Save the family or not? - Should betrayal be forgiven? - Should I change my place of work, profession? - Why did the conflict arise at work? In the family? - Should I have a child? There are also psychological problems that torment for months, years and even decades. If the problem that worries you is this, most likely, psychological counseling will not be enough for you. You need psychological therapy (or psychotherapy). In science, such a model also exists, and it is viewed as a direction of activity for a practical psychologist. In psychotherapy, only psychological methods and means are used, and not pharmacological, physical, etc. Psychotherapy can be short-term or long-term. During short-term psychotherapy, your work with a psychologist will focus on a specific problem or symptom. Accordingly, the goal of psychotherapy will be to resolve this problem or get rid of the symptom. Sometimes a person's difficulties lie in his character, and not in any one problem area. In this case, the psychologist will offer help in the form of long-term psychotherapy. Such therapy is not focused on any one problem, its goal is to study the entire personality of a person, and it can last quite a long time, depending on the goals set and the severity of the disorders. Any psychotherapy begins with 2-3 diagnostic meetings. During these meetings, the psychologist will listen carefully to you and your vision of the problem. The same symptoms can hide very