PSYCHOTHERAPY
Psychotherapy directly addresses a person’s emotional and mental health, which is, in turn, closely interwoven with his or her physical health. It encompasses a wide range of specific treatments from combining medication with discussion, to simply listening to the concerns of a patient, to using more active behavioral and emotive approaches. It also should be understood more generally as the matrix of interaction in which all the helping professions operate. Conventional psychotherapy is conducted primarily by means of psychologic methods such as suggestion, persuasion, psychoanalysis, and reeducation. It can be divided into general categories. All of the therapies can be undertaken either individually or in groups. Research indicates that psychotherapeutic treatment can hasten a recovery from a medical crisis and is in some cases the best treatment for it. Psychotherapy also appears to be valuable in the treatment of somatic illnesses in which physical symptoms appear to have no medical cause. These symptoms are often improved markedly with psychotherapy. In addition, psychotherapy has been shown to speed patients’ recovery time from illness. This, in turn, leads to smaller medical bills and fewer return visits to medical practitioners.

Dr. Lee Hilfker Clearwater Counseling (715) 832-4060 4330 Golf Terrace Eau Claire, WI 54701	Wendy Moore, M.S. Clearwater Counseling & Personal Growth Center (715) 832-4060 4330 Golf Terrace Suite #7984 Eau Claire, WI 54701-7984
Maria Spilde, M.A. Helios Center (715) 235-7333 815 Main St. Menomonie, WI 54751	Cedar Spring Stillpoint Center for Healing (715) 395-0139 1507 Tower Ave. Suite #217 Superior, WI 54880