Why Therapy?
Therapy provides a safe space to discuss your innermost thoughts and feelings with a trained professional. Here, you can process your thoughts and emotions and make desired behavioral changes that are in line with your goals. It is one of the only places where it really is "all about you", and the expectation of confidentiality is entirely realistic. It is a place of intended growth and insight.
While there are a number of reasons to pursue therapy, some common reasons I have found to be precipitants for starting therapy are listed below.
To learn new skills to manage an ongoing mental illness or chronic condition
To cope with depression, anxiety or panic symptoms
To address the grief or loss of a loved one, pet or other important relationship
To learn to manage anger and communicate thoughts and emotions more effectively
To address relationship problems or difficulties with emotional or physical intimacy
To communicate assertively
To address guilt or shame
To learn conflict resolution skills
To process conflicting emotions or address uncertainty about how to move forward in a particular area
To get help and accountability with reaching personal goals
To avoid behaviors that are either self sabotaging or incongruent with goals, and to find more effective behaviors
To resolve past trauma
To separate and understand difference between one's needs and the needs of others
To establish healthy boundaries and learn to say "No"
To identify and live by personal values
To improve marriage or other intimate relationship
To establish effective parenting techniques and improve parent-child relationships
““Change is inevitable.
Growth is intentional.””