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Are you looking for more support than your friends and family can give you?

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Merthyr has a great reputation for being a really close-knit, friendly and supportive community.  Almost like a small rural village, everyone knows everyone and you know that there is always someone close by to give friendly advice.  But maybe you're coming to realise that you need more specific, professional support.

 

Are you wondering if now might be the right time?

 

Maybe you have struggled on your own and tried to make changes but found that, although things work for a while, the ‘new start’ you keep promising yourself, just doesn’t stick. This can be a frustrating and upsetting place to be and can feel very lonely.  There is no definite point when seeking professional help is the right thing to do - everyone is an individual.  You also cannot be certain that 'now' is the right time.  But if you're struggling to change on your own, and your life is not going in the direction you want, you can get in touch for a chat with no obligation.

 

Perhaps you are hiding your behaviours and masking how you feel from people around you, so you are not getting any feedback from them.

 

These feelings can also hook into other beliefs we have about our value, competence and hopes for the future. Overthinking, anxiety, emotional outbursts, depression or anger can then start to be increasingly regular experiences. Of course, our addictive behaviour is also very likely to increase.

 

Real men (or women) don't need help from others

 

Even if we are used to seeing ourselves as strong and independent, we cannot resolve everything for ourselves all the time. We might believe that we ‘should be able to deal with this on our own’. But there comes a point where our established patterns of living, relating and coping are either overwhelmed by current circumstances or are just not letting us move on to the life that we want.

 

 

There is always a way forward

 

However stuck you feel in your repeating behaviours; whatever the impact has been on your relationships, finances, work and friendships and even on your sense of who you are; however defeated you feel by previous attempts to change; you can lighten the weight of these struggles and move forward.

 

Psychological Therapy really can help this change happen

 

Working collaboratively with an experienced and skilled therapist can enable you to know yourself and understand what underlies the discrepancies between what you want and what you do. Through engaging with processes of exploring, learning, discovery and practicing you really can make change happen.