What Is Psychotherapy?
Psychotherapy, also called talk therapy, is a type of mental health treatment.
It’s often used either alone or with medications to treat mental disorders. During a psychotherapy session, you talk to a doctor or a licensed mental health care professional to identify and change troubling thoughts.
Benefits of Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy helps people with a mental disorder to:
- Understand the behaviors, emotions, and ideas that contribute to their illness and learn how to modify them
- Understand and identify the life problems or events -- like a major illness, a death in the family, a loss of a job, or a divorce -- that contribute to their illness and help them understand which aspects of those problems they may be able to solve or improve
- Regain a sense of control and pleasure in life
- Learn healthy coping techniques and problem-solving skills
(via https://www.webmd.com)