prstoronto.com - Psychotherapy Referral Service

What can psychotherapy do for you?

Psychotherapy provides a place to safely explore whatever is troubling you. It offers a place to express your fears and anxieties and to strengthen your emotional responses to them. It can help you deal with daily problems so you can take charge of your life.

As a result of therapy, you will have the opportunity to feel less alone, less victimized, and more able to cope with life. You may even be encouraged to express yourself more creatively and confidently.

Psychotherapy encourages you to deal with daily problems in new and more functional ways. Sessions involve you and your therapist usually meeting once a week in a private office for about an hour. Typically, you sit opposite each other and begin a conversation about your life and the challenges you are experiencing.

Some people come with very specific problems or with a larger purpose of understanding themselves better, of finding their true selves, of freeing up energy for living more fully. (This work takes time, sometimes months, often longer.) Whereas others may not articulate a specific situation, but express a feeling - or lack of feeling - that is impacting their well being negatively.

The uniqueness of our service at PRS is that we are trained to choose the best, most beneficial match between you and one of our 50 professional therapists so that the experience is the best, most uplifting it can be.

Our psychotherapists are trained to explore a myriad of problems you may be encountering including:

Persistent sad, anxious, or "empty" mood
Feelings of hopelessness, pessimism
Feelings of guilt, worthlessness, helplessness
Loss of interest or pleasure in hobbies and activities that were once enjoyed, including sex
Decreased energy, fatigue, being "slowed down"

Difficulty concentrating, remembering, making decisions
Insomnia, early-morning awakening, or oversleeping
Appetite and/or weight loss or overeating and weight gain
Thoughts of death or suicide; suicide attempts
Restlessness, irritability
Persistent physical symptoms that do not respond to treatment, such as headaches, digestive disorders, and chronic pain