Psychotherapy comprises treatments that can help you when you’re experiencing any of a number of mental conditions and emotional challenges that can affect your thoughts, emotions, behaviors and moods.

Psychotherapy can help to alleviate symptoms, and in many cases, identify root causes. In so doing, psychotherapy, also known as talk therapy, can help you to take control of your life and respond to challenging situations with healthy coping skills.

Conditions that can be helped by psychotherapy include coping with stressful life events, the impact of trauma, medical illness or loss such as the death of a loved one; and specific mental health conditions such as depression or anxiety.