Supportive Psychotherapy

Supportive psychotherapy is a dyadic treatment that uses direct measures improve symptoms and maintain, restore, or improve self-esteem, ego function, and adaptive skills. This therapy is based on encouragement, optimism and support.

Through supportive therapy one might be able to resume one’s daily’s activities and use his ability to cope with them.

The aim of this therapy is also to reduce and prevent anxiety along with increasing a person’s awareness of his illness or his problem.

The therapist attempts to help patients deal with their emotional distress and problems in living.

It involves comforting, advising, encouraging, reassuring and mostly listening attentively and sympathetically.