Everyone experiences difficulties in their lives and may turn to friends, relatives and colleagues for advice, guidance and emotional support . This helps them not only to find solutions to their current difficulties but hopefully enables them to deal with future difficulties more effectively. For many, however, they find comfort for a while then find themselves facing the same difficulties all over again, when this happens repeatedly they begin to wonder what is going on. Analytical psychotherapy provides a framework within which individuals can, in the context of a professional relationship, explore the difficulties they face in their lives, gain a better understanding of what is going on and use this understanding to open up new ways of making sense of things, thus fostering emotional and psychological growth.