The starting point is the observation that many psychological problems are either the result of a learnt pattern, or of pressures and/or deficits in a person’s psychological environment.

These learnt patterns are often the best adaptation a person could find in the past or in childhood. A person may continue to use them in the present – often unknowingly. However, these same patterns may no longer work in the present situation. As a result, a person may get stuck and seek help.

This view emanates, amongst other things, from mainstream psychological theories, as well as (for example) from Transactional Analysis and Humanistic Psychology.

Psychologists and psychotherapists belonging to this school of thought tend not to think, for example, that people HAVE depression or anxiety disorder. Instead they think these people ARE probably FEELING depressed or anxious for a variety of reasons, which need to be understood and, where possible, dealt with.

Thus, Lilly’s approach is about offering help to clients to find solutions for themselves. This is called ‘problem-solving therapy’ in Transactional Analysis, and is a quite different approach philosophically to offering psychological ‘treatment’. Here, therapy is viewed as ‘teamwork’, where both the client and the therapist work actively together to solve problems with which the client is struggling.

The essence of this approach is perhaps the message that people CAN change and grow, and often profoundly so, if they are committed to it.

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