Loss 

Life changing events like a loved one dying, losing your job, a relationship ending, moving house or financial difficulties can have far reaching effects. People endure all of these and more in their lives. Such traumatic experiences can have a cumulative effect on a person’s well-being. Sometimes just talking about it can be enough. A trained therapist will know how to listen and respond to a person who has suffered enduring circumstances. 

Addiction 

Addiction can present itself in two ways, physically and emotionally. What can happen with physical addiction is that the body becomes dependant upon a substance and needs help in re-activating its own resources for providing the chemical stimulation artificially induced by a substance. In the emotional sense what often happens is that the body, again, feels dependant upon the substance but it is the temporary relief of symptoms that occur at the feeling level of emotion that is depended upon. Again, help is needed to re-activate the internal resources that provide comfort and satisfaction in times of stress, anxiety or depression.