We all experience challenges throughout our lifetime, and it’s not unusual to feel overwhelmed at times. All people are faced with stressors, like relationship concerns, job loss, the death of a loved one, difficult life transitions, or other issues in our external world. Sometimes our challenges can be internal to us, rooted in experiences or past relationships, leaving us with profound sadness, heightened anxiety, or anger. And when these problems become debilitating or leave us feeling overwhelmed, therapy can be life changing.
In a therapeutic relationship, it is your therapist’s responsibility to create an environment where thoughts and feelings can be shared and your experience validated. Using careful assessment, therapists use evidence-based practices to help you identify unhealthy patterns of thinking, communicating, and behaving with the goal of supporting healthier ways of coping and living.
There are several approaches to psychotherapy — including cognitive-behavioral, interpersonal, DBT, and other kinds of talk therapy — that can be useful in gaining greater insight into the belief systems, relationships, and behaviors that are creating distress or emotional pain. The therapist’s treatment approach is always unique to the individual’s needs.
Psychotherapy is a collaborative process, based on the supportive relationship between you and your therapist. Grounded in dialogue, it provides a supportive, safe, and comfortable environment that allows you to talk openly with an objective, neutral, and nonjudgmental professional. You and your therapist will work together to identify and change the thought and behavior patterns that are keeping you from fulfilling personal goals. The work of therapy moves us toward achieving an overall sense of wellbeing.
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