Considering mental health? You are already in motion towards a process of change. A pathway towards change often requires time spent thinking/ talking about what we will do in the future prior to doing it. Many people think about things well in advance and sometimes many times over before taking the step(s) towards a commitment for change.
Why Consider therapy? Therapy is to your social-emotional/behavioral health as nutrition, health care and exercise are to your body. It’s the place to work on strengthening these aspects of your life, develop your EQ (emotional intelligence) and gain tools to increase your ability to manage your mental health, well-being to gain more control and achieve balance in your life. Just as when you become physically ill, you need medical treatments to heal, depending on the nature of the illness; when mental health is out of balance, you need counseling/emotional support/treatments to bring emotional health towards equilibrium.
What we know Research tells us that therapeutic intervention is effective and as beneficial as medication treatment in the short-term benefits. Research tells us that the long-term effects of therapy outlast medication treatments.
The Impact: Therapy can help you increase your self-esteem and confidence, helping you to feel more in control and gain peace of mind, balance and wellness. The opposite is true when our mental health is out of balance. We feel out of control, which affects our self confidence and self-esteem negatively impacts the way we think, feel and behave affecting our ability to achieve more success and have a negative impact on relationships.
What is Therapy? Therapy is many different things and has many different applications, types of treatments and approaches towards growth change/ adjustment and wellness. It can be helpful for the healing of childhood and adolescent challenges, parenting issues, emotional, behavioral and personality and identity disorders, to exploring the emotional scars of trauma/ emotional wounding/abuse and neglect, feelings of helplessness, being stuck, challenges associated with physical pain/ disabilities/ aging, the experience of loss or death of loved ones, divorce/ break ups, stress management, or a desire to explore the deeper natures of yourself and improve the relationship with to yourself/others, or a desire to achieve more overall success, increasing your 'A game' to achieve success,
What Can I Learn in Therapy?: Just scratching the surface-some things we can learn in therapy are: symptom management, your emotional nature/emotional regulation, identifying triggers and coping skills, goal setting, gaining momentum towards goals, prioritizing, what an addiction/attachment is, how to identify and manage emotions/processing emotions and experiences, the connection between your thoughts, emotions and behaviors, how to manage/heal from trauma/ abuse that gets stuck, importance of talk therapy, self-care, self-compassion, what forgiveness is and isn’t what the grief process is, trust issues, getting stuck/unstuck what is being present/mindful, why breathing is effective, how do I handle my anger, what is this disorder/why do I have this disorder, frustration management, what meditation is, why/how does meditation work, why is my brain always worried, depressed, what is memory why I have low frustration tolerance, why I can see patterns of my behavior but don’t know how to change them, what acceptance is/not, relaxation vs. stress, what stress does to the mind and body, healing modalities and strategies that work and improved relationships, self actualization, reaching goals.